The baseline Widal titre among the healthy individuals of the hilly areas in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 437-440

  Pal, Shekhar ^a   Prakash, Rajat ^a   Juyal, Deepak ^a   Sharma, Neelam ^a   Rana, Amit ^a   Negi, Sandeep ^a  

^a Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt Medical Sciences and Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Baseline titre; Salmonella; Typhoid fever; Widal agglutination test

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; H ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI B; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 84874864439     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/4889.2793     Document Type: Article

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