background and objective: typhoid fever is still a major health problem for which there are limited options for the diagnosis. current diagnostic methods are time consuming with undesirable sensitivity. among newer diagnostic methods, pcr is attractive and could be potentially very helpful in developing countries where systemic salmonella infections are endemic among children but needs to be in...

Enteric fever is a common cause of pyrexia of unknown origin in India and diagnosis of uncomplicated cases based on the signs and symptoms is not specific. Definitive diagnosis of typhoid can be made by the isolation of Salmonella typhi (S.typhi) from blood, faeces or bone marrow. Such culture techniques are often unavailable in developing nation and widal test serves as most efficient serologi...

Typhoid is a severe, infectious and life-threatening disease. Typhoid disease mainly hit on children who are in school-going age. It is not very common in adults and older people. In developing countries, facilities for isolation and culture are often not available especially in smaller hospitals and diagnosis relies upon the clinical features of the disease and detection of agglutinating antib...

Urine : Albumin +. No sugar or casts. Widal.?Negative 1 in 25 for B. typhosus, and para A, B and and C. Weil-Felix reaction.?OXK 25, OX2 -f100, 0X19 + 200. Progress.?The temperature became normal on the morning of the 14th day of illness. He had slight rise of temperature in the evening for the next 3 days, and it settled down to normal on the 18th day. The hiccough continued till the 16th day....

Over the past 3 years 52 patients with typhoid ileal perforation were treated surgically. Widal test was positive in all, and majority (42 cases) of the patients were males. Single perforation was often found in the last 20 cms of the ileum. Simple closure (31 cases) or closure with ileotransverse colostomy (21 cases) were the procedures of choice, resulting in 16.12% and 14.24% mortality in th...

This is a case report of a 12-year-old returned traveler with typhoid and scrub typhus coinfection. The diagnosis of typhoid was made early with blood cultures and Widal Weil Felix serology. Persistent fever despite appropriate antibiotics for typhoid fever prompted a search for concomitant infection, which led to the diagnosis of scrub typhus confirmed by Orientia tsutsugamushi serology. The p...

On examination, the child was conscious and co-operative. He was mildly febrile, pulse and blood pressure were normal. Both spleen (2.5 cm) and the liver were enlarged (1.5 cm). Central nervous system and other systems were within normal limits. The widal test was positive with O and H titres being 1:240 and 1:120 respectively. Blood culture was positive for Salmonella typhi and sensitivity sho...

on the serological diagnosis using the conventional Widal test, the correct interpretation of the results of which is beset with many difficulties. The discovery by Felix and Pitt (1934) of a Vi antigen of B. typhosus, and its serumcounterpart Vi antibody in the sera of typhoid patients and carriers, opened up a new serological approach to the problem of diagnosis of typhoid infection. Bensted ...