Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Synopsis
Association of Scrub Typhus in Children with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Meningoencephalitis, Southern India
Table 3
Performance of cerebrospinal fluid IgM ELISA compared with cerebrospinal fluid real-time PCR for scrub typhus in children with acute encephalitis syndrome and meningoencephalitis, southern India
Cerebrospinal fluid IgM | Cerebrospinal fluid PCR |
||
---|---|---|---|
No. (%) positive | No. (%) negative | Total | |
Positive | 13 (92.8) | 45 (17.8) | 58 |
Negative |
1 (7.1) |
207 (82.1) |
208 |
Total | 14 | 252 | 266 |
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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