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The Prognostic Importance of the Widal Reaction in Typhoid Fever
come across cases which are clinically true cases of typhoid fever, but in which curiously enough the Widal reaction remains completely negative during the whole course of the disease, and some of these cases recover. My object in writing this note is to discuss these aberrant negative results in the Widal reaction. In some patients the Widal reaction has been observed to be positive in as high...
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even as late as after defervescence. Naturally in these cases, specially when the other laboratory findings were also negative, the diagnosis remained in doubt for a long time, giving rise to speculation and anxiety concerning their exact nature and suitability of the line of treatment followed. 2. In others, the reaction stayed so very low during the course of the disease that its value in dia...
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or 1Hand what are their individual significance and value ? 4. Do the titres of ' 0 ' and ' H ' agglutinins vary or fluctuate in subsequent weeks ? If so, do they undergo similar fluctuation or independent of one another ? If such variations occur, what is their clinical significance ? 5. Are these variations, fluctuations, etc., of any value in forecasting the course of the disease, and progno...
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We studied the value of the Widal tube agglutination test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. The subjects were all adults >18 years of age and were divided into four groups: (i) 317 healthy blood donor controls, (ii) 31 bacteriologically confirmed patients with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, (iii) 21 patients with a clinical diagnosis of typhoid fever, and (iv) 41 febrile nontyphoid patie...
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The worldwide gold standard of diagnosing of enteric fever depends on the isolation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi from a patient's bone marrow and/or blood culture. In Libya clinicians are heavily dependent on the Widal test for diagnosis of enteric fever which has been used without determining the locally appropriate threshold titer, because the laboratories lack the skilled, experience...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1901
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm190105091441903