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False-positive widal in melioidosis.
Enteric fever is endemic in this part of the world, and Widal test is one of the time-honored laboratory tests that are being used for years to diagnose the disease. On the other hand, melioidosis is a newly emerging disease from this region, which is most often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed by clinicians. It is well accepted that false-positive Widal reactions following certain non-typhoid Sa...
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Enteric fever(l) and Kala-azar (vis-ceral leishmaniasis) are endemic, in and around Patna. Kala-azar usually has an indolent course but it can present as an acute disease with fever, anorexia and vomiting(2,3). At times both the diseases are so closely similar in their presentation , that differential diagnosis is not always clear, Widal test, inspite of its limitations and fallacies is still w...
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In the past, a number of studies had been carried out to evaluate the significance and interpretation of a single Widal result in the diagnosis of typhoid fever in this country. Hand/or o agglutinin titres of ~1:40 to ~1 :500 had been recommended as significant levels in the absence of paired sera results. 1 , 2 , 3 Though at least two of the authors had acknowledged that these ~ criteria were ...
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A laboratory study comparing the Widal slide agglutination test using local antigens produced by Mekar Jaya Diagnostica (SAT-MJD) with imported antigens (Murex, Abbott) was carried out on 55 sera of typhoid fever patients with positive blood culture and 56 sera of non-typhoid febrile patients. The SAT-MJD antigens consisted of a mixture of 5 different phage-types of S. typhi dominantly found in...
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Enteric fever is a systemic infection caused by Salmonella serotypes; S. typhi, S. paratyphi A, S. paratyphi B, S. paratyphi Cand S. sendai (Mandell GL et al, Parker MT). It is characterized by malaise, fever, abdominal discomfort, transient rash, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, bradycardia, and leucopenia. Major complications are intestinal hemorrhage and perforation (Hook EW et al). It is still a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300027897