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Review Article The laboratory diagnosis of enteric fever
The diagnosis of enteric fever currently depends upon the isolation of Salmonella from a patient, most commonly by blood culture. This facility is not available in many areas where the disease is endemic. Serodiagnosis depends upon the 100-year-old Widal test, and other serological diagnostic tools have limitations because of their low sensitivity and/or specificity. The most promising recently...
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treatment, a careful study of the symptoms of tropical enteric fever is of great importance. I shall, therefore, try to show in what way the symptoms of typhoid fever in the tropics differ from those of the disease as seen in temperate climates; and shall give notes of some cases which illustrate the difficulty often experienced in its diagnosis. In the majority of cases of tropical enteric fev...
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Although the definitive diagnosis of enteric fever requires the isolation of Salmonella enterica serotype typhi or paratyphi, the diagnosis is usually made according to clinical and laboratory findings. There is usually a diagnostic dilemma. The aim of this study was to determine the minimum required parameters that could be valuable in the diagnosis of enteric fever. A retrospective study was ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1972-2680,2036-6590
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.155