Performance of Widal Test and Stool Culture as Diagnostic Methods for Salmonella Typhi Infection in Chuka General Hospital, Tharaka Nithi County
- Gitonga Ciriaka Muthoni, Gerald Gitonga, +5 authors David Nganga
- 2016
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Diagnostic utility of a single Widal test in the diagnosis of typhoid fever at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Nairobi, Kenya.
- Published 2010 in Tropical doctor
Abstract
Typhoid fever is a systemic illness caused by Salmonella enterica serovar typhi (S. typhi) and is endemic in Kenya, where a single Widal test done on an acute phase serum is the most commonly used test. Using a cut-off value of 1:320 for both O and H agglutinins as being diagnostic of S. typhi, only 18 (26%) of our patients had diagnostic titres; 37 (53.6… (More)