A prospective study in Thailand identified 106 patients with culture-proven leptospirosis. The accuracy of the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) in predicting the infecting serovar was evaluated in 78/106 (74%) patients with a diagnostic titer. MAT correctly determined the infecting serovar in 26 cases (33%), indicating that this assay is a poor predictor of infecting serovar in our setting. Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Smythe, L. D., Wuthiekanun, V., Chierakul, W., Suputtamongkol, Y., Tiengrim, S., Dohnt, M. F., … Peacock, S. J. (2009). Short report: The microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is an unreliable predictor of infecting Leptospira serovar in Thailand. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 81(4), 695–697. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0252
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