Dr Atanda said that widal test is not enough for the clinical diagnoses of typhoid fever, arguing that faecal and blood culture is required to come to a conclusion.

The Widal test rapidly detects and quantifies these antibodies. It’s a point-of-care test and doesn’t need special skills or infrastructure.

The Widal test involves testing for agglutinating antibody levels against O antigens which usually appear 6 to 8 days after disease onset and H antigens which appear on days 10 to 12.

Amid renewed discussions among certain physicians questioning the validity of the widal test for diagnosing typhoid fever, the National President, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of ...

Medical doctors have said that Widal test, a popular laboratory investigation prescribed by many hospitals for the diagnosis of typhoid in Nigeria, is no longer valid for the clinical diagnosis ...

NIH said in a letter that it has come to the knowledge of the institution that some clinical laboratories and hospitals, particularly in flood-affected areas, are still using “Widal” and ...

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