Epidemiology and Performances of Typhidot Immunoassay and Widal Slide Agglutination in the Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in Febrile Patients in Bafoussam City, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Table 1

Summary of study participant recruitment criteria.

Inclusion criteria^a (N = 410)	Noninclusion criteria (49)^b	Exclusion criteria^c (n = 25)
(i) Patients with fever, temperature ≥37.50 C		(i) Subjects with hemolyzed blood
(ii) Subjects of at least one year old, regardless of sex or ethnicity, who have given a favorable opinion to participate freely in the study, or parental consents	(i) Patients on antibiotic treatment; (ii) Subjects who refused to sign the informed consent form	(ii) Patients who did not provide all the required information; (iii) Febrile subjects with malaria and respiratory infections

^aInclusion criteria are characteristics that the prospective subjects must have if they are to be included in the study. ^bNoninclusion criteria are characteristics that subjects must not have if they are to be included in the study. ^cExclusion criteria are features that exclude subjects from the study in progress.