Typhoid fever: misuse of Widal test in Libya
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Typhoid fever: misuse of Widal test in Libya.
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 Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1972-2680
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.3700