The Prognostic Importance of the Widal Reaction in Typhoid Fever
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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 a titre
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