Syndromic Diagnostics for Travelers’ Diarrhea: Near-Patient Field-Expedient Testing in Resource-Limited Settings

The study shows moderate concordance of FilmArray with Seegene PCR in the detection of 5 enteropathogens and poor to fair concordance for 7 others, but high-quality case-control studies are needed to assess agreement between these platforms. However, based on performance characteristics, including platform versatility and ease of use, and in the absence of a gold (reference) standard test, the FilmArray platform remains a suitable near-patient field-expedient platform for diarrhea diagnostics in resource-limited settings.