Scrub typhus serologic testing with the indirect immunofluorescence method as a diagnostic gold standard: a lack of consensus leads to a lot of confusion

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Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2008
CRD SUMMARY: This review found variation in methodologies and criteria used for scrub typhus indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFA), raising questions about which IFA threshold should be used to diagnose acute scrub typhus infection. These conclusions should be treated with caution as the analysis and included studies were unable to provide the strong evidence-base required to draw such conclusions.
Epistemonikos ID: 75afd055b0aa16856ecca6af4637a28b5b60dd94
First added on: Jun 08, 2012