BASELINE WIDAL TITRES AMONG APPARENTLY HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN HADOTI REGION, RAJASTHAN

Baseline Widal titres in healthy children.

OBJECTIVE To determine the baseline Widal titres in apparently healthy children in Davangere. METHODS Cross-sectional study was done on 250 children. Widal titers were found using tube agglutination test. RESULTS Out of 250,64.2% had a titre of less than 1:20,22.4% had a titre equal to 1:20,9.6% had a titre of 1:40 and 3.6% had a titre of 1:80 to 'O' antigen and 67.2% had a titre of less th...

Determination of baseline widal titres amongst apparently healthy blood donors in ahmednagar, maharashtra, India.

BACKGROUND Enteric fever is endemic in all parts of India. The Widal agglutination test is widely used for its diagnosis. But the interpretation of Widal test depends upon the baseline titre which is prevalent amongst healthy individuals in a particular geographical area. AIM Present study was undertaken to establish the normal baseline titre in apparently healthy blood donors and also to det...

Assessment of Widal Tube Agglutination Test and its Baseline Titres in Amritsar an Endemic Area

ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 10 (2016) pp. 598-604 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Typhoid fever, an endemic disease caused by salmonella group of organisms is very common in India due to improper sanitation and poverty. Isolation of the causative organism from the blood and other body fluids remains the definitive test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. But this isolation requires ...

Serum ALT level in apparently healthy individuals

Profile of the circulating DNA in apparently healthy individuals.

BACKGROUND Circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) have been shown to have diagnostic utility in human diseases. The aim of this study was to sequence and organize CNAs to document typical profiles of circulating DNA in apparently healthy individuals. METHODS Serum DNA from 51 apparently healthy humans was extracted, amplified, sequenced via pyrosequencing (454 Life Sciences/Roche Diagnostics), and ...