TYPHOID VACCINATION AND THE WIDAL REACTION
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1912.04260060021006