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Figure 5

From: ELISA versus PCR for diagnosis of chronic Chagas disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

Figure 5

PCR for Chagas disease HSROC - subgroups of blood samples boiled before processed and stored with guanidine. Big blue upside down triangle - summary estimate of the group stored with guanidine and boiled; Big green diamond - summary estimate of the group stored with guanidine and not boiled; Big red triangle - summary estimate of the group not stored with guanidine and not boiled; Blue small squares and blue small upside down triangles - shrunken estimates from bivariate model and crude estimates (respectively) from group stored with guanidine and not boiled; blue solid line - SROC curve from group stored with guanidine and boiled; dot - crude estimates; small green squares and small green diamonds - shrunken estimates from bivariate model and crude estimates (respectively) from group stored with guanidine and not boiled; solid green line - SROC curve from group stored with guanidine and not boiled; small red squares and small red triangles - shrunken estimates from bivariate model and crude estimates (respectively) from group not stored with guanidine and not boiled; red solid line - SROC curve from group not stored with guanidine and not boiled; NA - not assigned or missing.

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