A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study of the Performance of the Widal Test and the Typhidot Immunoassay for Typhoid Fever Diagnosis in the West Region of Cameroon

Table 3

Distribution of clinical symptoms of study participants.

	Total (N = 558)	Typhoid fever positive	value	RR (95% CI)
Fever	558	72	0.9999	N/A
Headache	363	48	0.7927	1.074 (0.6854–1.699)
Nausea	107	12	0.633	0.843 (0.4691–1.475)
Abdominal pain	457	66	0.021	2.431 (1.130–5.401)
Fatigue	296	40	0.4444	0.827 (0.5365–1.279)
Vomiting	63	8	0.9999	0.9821 (0.4911–1.869)
Type of stool
Hard	93	4	<0.0001
Mucoid	254	23	N/A
Watery	170	44	<0.0001
Bloody	41	1

N: total number of participants; RR: relative risk; N/A: not available.