Widal agglutination test - 100 years later: Still plagued by controversy

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 892, 2000, Pages 80-84

  Olopoenia, Lateef A ^a,b   King, Aprileona L ^b  

^a Liberty Medical and Research Center   (Nigeria)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Typhoid fever; Widal agglutination test

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; H ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STANDARDIZATION; TYPHOID FEVER;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0033968559     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.892.80     Document Type: Review

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