Background: Brucella sps are Gram negative, facultative intracellular bacteria causing brucellosis in humans and animals. Since it is a multi-organ disease and symptoms are nonspecific the diagnosis by clinical finding is difficult and can be missed .Many serological tests have been used form the diagnosis of human brucellosis. This study compared the diagnostic value of in-house ELISA and IFA ...

enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. in india, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. with increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of tf needs to be rationalized.   to compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. to study the change in trend in the prescription pattern. ...

245 patients with typhoid fever were admitted in university of isfahan medical centers during the last 4 years are reported here in this study. the diagnosis was confirmed in each case by the history of the exposure physical examination, widal seroreaction and blood culture test. the highest incidence of the disease occurred between 10-19 years of age, and mostly in summer months, during june, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of chronic typhoidal salmonellae amongst food vendors in Kumasi Ghana. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Sitting and itinerant food vendors in Kumasi. METHODS Screening of 258 (230 females of 28 males) healthy food vendors for Salmonella typhi, and S. paratyphi A, B, and C, using stool culture, the widal test, and standard microbiological identifica...

One-hundred consecutive patients with typhoid perforation of the gut admitted in the same surgical unit of the University Hospital have been studied. The cases were diagnosed on the basis of history, clinical examination, exploratory findings, histopathological examination, Widal test and blood culture. Forty-six patients had perforation in the second week of fever. Sixty-one patients presented...

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...

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 ...