Baseline Antibody Titre against Salmonella enterica in Healthy Population of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Baseline Antibody Titre against Salmonella enterica in Healthy Population of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to establish a baseline titre for the population of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. METHOD Four hundred healthy blood donors, attending blood donation camps, were screened using a survey questionnaire. Widal tube agglutination test was performed on the diluted sera (with 0.9% normal saline) of blood donors, with final dilution ranging from 1 : 40 to 1 : 320. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Microbiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1687-918X,1687-9198
DOI: 10.1155/2017/9042125