DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF TYPHIDOT TEST IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH ENTERIC FEVER IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Authors

  • Amir Muhammad Pediatric Department, MTI/Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar
  • Khwaja Kamran Pediatric Department, MTI/Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar
  • Bakht Biland Post graduate resident, MTI/ Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar
  • Mian Sarfraz Gul Fauji Foundation Hospital Peshawar
  • Shireen Anwar Post graduate resident, MTI/ Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v13i1.103

Keywords:

Typhoid fever, blood culture, Typhidot test, diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of typhidot test against the gold standard blood culture in the children with enteric fever.
Materials and Methods: This Cross-sectional validation study was conducted on 111 children having age range of 2-16 years with documented fever of equal or greater than 380C for 1 week or more were included.All patients were evaluated for enteric fever by clinical signs & symptoms and laboratory investigations. Typhidot test, blood culture and sensitivity, full blood count, malarial parasite test, liver functional test, urine examination was done. The specifi city, Sensitivity, negative predictive value and positive predictive values along with diagnostic accuracy were calculated in SPSS v.22 and Medcalc software.
Results: The mean age was 8.02±3.357 years. Of total45(40.5%) were males while 66(59.5%) were female. There was no significant diff erence between typhidot and blood culture in diagnosis of enteric fever (p=0.877). The true positives were 50 (72.5%) and true negatives were 11(26.2%).The sensitivity of typhidot was 72.46% and specifi city was 26.19%. The diagnostic accuracy was 54.95%.
Conclusion: Overall specificity and sensitivity of typhidottest is low.

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Published

2023-03-31

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Amir Muhammad, Khwaja Kamran, Bakht Biland, Mian Sarfraz Gul, & Shireen Anwar. (2023). DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF TYPHIDOT TEST IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH ENTERIC FEVER IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL. JOURNAL OF KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, 13(1), 48–51. https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v13i1.103

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Khyber College of Dentistry

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