Review of: "Misdiagnosis of Dengue Fever as Malaria and Typhoid Fever and Their Co-infection in Rural Areas of Southwest Nigeria"
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Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.Generally, it is a well-thought-out and valuable research study that can significantly improve malaria and typhoid fever treatment in the Southwest region of Nigeria and correct misdiagnosis of dengue fever.However, it needs more scientific backing, especially in the method section, and clear writing.The authors used "present" and "past tense" interchangeably, which made it confusing for readers.Some paragraphs need to be rewritten to make absolute sense to the reader.The authors' result section is rather convoluted and hard to understand.It may be helpful for them to rewrite it in a more coherent manner, using the infection cases as subheadings rather than the methods.In the fourth paragraph of the results, the authors stated that 6.7% of the samples were co-infected.However, they also mentioned in the first paragraph that 29.4% of the samples confirmed the presence of a combination of malaria parasite, typhoid, and dengue virus.This discrepancy should be addressed to avoid confusion.It's puzzling that the ELISA test detected DENV protein while the same protein was not amplified using RT-PCR, even with specific primers.
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