The dilemma of widal test - which brand to use? a study of four different widal brands: A cross sectional comparative study

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bakr, Wafaa M K ^a   El Attar, Laila A ^a   Ashour, Medhat S ^a   El Toukhy, Ayman M ^a  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; H AGGLUTININ; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O AGGLUTININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VALIDITY; WIDAL REACTION; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551680655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-10-7     Document Type: Article

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