Background Over-dependence on clinical presentation and/or the Widal agglutination test
for the diagnosis of typhoid fever in developing countries can lead to antibiotic abuse. In …

Objective To determine diagnostic value of the Widal test, treatment pattern of febrile
patients and antimicrobial drug susceptibility pattern of blood isolates. Methods Using cross …

Background: Single Widal agglutination test rather than blood culture, is commonly
employed to diagnose typhoid fever in Nigeria. We took another look at the Widal …

In the last 2 years, there has been public panic across Nigeria about an epidemic of a
'killer'febrile disease, purportedly typhoid fever. The evidence for this epidemic is reviewed …

Objective We set an experiment to determine the diagnostic performance of the Widal test
and stool culture in typhoid-suspected cases attending tertiary hospitals in Dar es Salaam …

Background. The diagnosis of typhoid fever based on the Widal slide agglutination test
remains a major hurdle in developing countries due to varied perceptions of the value of the …

Typhoid fever, a classical disease of enteric origin caused by Salmonella species of
bacteria, is among the most important diseases threatening public health in Africa. The …

In an attempt to evaluate various clinical and laboratory features available within 24 h of
admission, prior to the Widal test and bacteriological culture results as potential diagnostic …

Typhoid fever is a major dilemma in developing nations, despite the antibiotic use and new
antibiotics discovery. Blood culture and serological tests (especially Widal test) that are …

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever is blood culture (BC). Because
blood culture is often not available in impoverished settings it would be helpful to have …