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What Does The Widal Test Result Indicate?
Posted on
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Question : My Widal test result are as follows: Is it normal?
S Typhi O of 1:80
S Typhi H of 1:80
S Typhi A (H ) 1:40
S Typhi B (H ) 1:40
S Typhi O of 1:80
S Typhi H of 1:80
S Typhi A (H ) 1:40
S Typhi B (H ) 1:40
Brief Answer:
It's Negative.
Detailed Answer:
HI
Greeting from Dr. Divakara.P
First of all thanks for choosing Healthcaremagic for posting your query.
Widal test if done within 5-7 days of onset of fever may falsely give negative values or low values . Ideally a value of 1:160 or more is considered positive . So as per that your report is Negative .
But again don't take it as negative very seriously if the test was done within 5-7 days of onset of fever.
A confirmatory test would be IgM Typhi Dot.
Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarifications feel free to ask .
Regards.
It's Negative.
Detailed Answer:
HI
Greeting from Dr. Divakara.P
First of all thanks for choosing Healthcaremagic for posting your query.
Widal test if done within 5-7 days of onset of fever may falsely give negative values or low values . Ideally a value of 1:160 or more is considered positive . So as per that your report is Negative .
But again don't take it as negative very seriously if the test was done within 5-7 days of onset of fever.
A confirmatory test would be IgM Typhi Dot.
Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarifications feel free to ask .
Regards.
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