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...

Typhoid fever is one of the diseases that attack human digestive tract has a close relationship with environmental sanitation factors. transmitted through food and drink contaminated by Salmonella typhi an infectious disease. This type research descriptive analytics aims to look for relationships between variables. The method used in Widal test agglutination while on Anti IgM examination Inhibi...

OBJECTIVE Typhoid fever is a major public health problem. A test which is simple, reliable and can be carried out in small laboratories is the need of the hour. We prospectively evaluated typhidot M and Diazo tests vis-à-vis blood culture and Widal test in children. METHODS Patients aged 6 months to 12 years, having fever of more than four days duration with clinical suspicion of typhoid feve...

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...

Plesiomonas shigelloides was isolated as the sole pathogen from gallbladder bile and wall in a 58-year-old woman with acute cholecystitis. The patient developed an unusual postoperative complication characterized by culture-negative discharge from the wound in combination with extensive abdominal cellulitis and afebrility. Agglutinating antibodies to P. shigelloides were demonstrated in the ser...