OBJECTIVE To define optic neuritis associated with chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection in a clinical setting. METHODS This observational case series includes 14 patients with clinical features of CHIKV infection and associated optic neuritis. Complete ophthalmic evaluations were performed, as well as other examinations, including Mantoux test, Widal test, blood profile, color vision, neuroima...

possibility of malaria, five grains of quinine were administered hypodermically and Liquor Arsenicalisi prescribed in mixture. 28th August.?This is the sixteemh day of the fever. The temperature is now irregularly intermittent in type. The blood serum was again sent to Western Command Laboratory and the report received was? "Negative Widal in 1?40 dilution with B. typhosus." 6th September.?He h...

Inserm, UMR-S 1144, 75006 Paris, France Service de psychiatrie adulte, pôle neurosciences, groupe hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière-Fernand Widal, AP–HP, 200, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 5475 Paris cedex 10, France UMR-S 1144, université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France UMR-S 1144, université Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France Fondation FondaMental, 94000 Créteil, France Inserm U 1171, ...

Received December 12, 2012; accepted December 19, 2012. From the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (J.F.M.); and Service de Genetique Neuro-Vasculaire, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Lariboisiere-Fernand-Widal and INSERM UMR-S740, Paris, France (E.T.-L.). Correspondence to James F. Meschia, MD, Chair, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 3222...

Typhoid fever is still an important public health problem in many developing countries especially in tropical parts of the world, as in Indonesia. This problem opens the way for a further study with the aim of finding an alternative serological test with a high degree of reliability for the detection of typhoid fever. Given the above mentioned purpose, a study on the reliability of a laboratory...

Rickettsial diseases are generally classified under the causes of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) and high prevalence of this disease is found in developing countries like India. Diagnosis in such cases is difficult because early sign and symptoms are non-specific and varied. Mortality may be as high as 3040% if untreated. Weil Felix in one of the cheapest screening method available for laborat...

The indirect fluorescent antibody test using a whole Salmonella typhi Vi suspension as the antigen has been evaluated for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. Results using sera from 140 patients with S typhi infections proved on culture show the test to have good sensitivity. The test appears to be highly specific, although it has not yet been investigated with respect to typhoid vaccination or in ...