THE WIDAL SLIDE AGGLUTINATION TEST, A VALUABLE RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN TYPHOID FEVER PATIENTS AT THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL OF JAKARTA
| Autor: | Timothy P. Flanigan, Arini Sutomo, M. Asril Moechtar, Budhi Leksana, Douglas N. Klaucke, Narain H. Punjabi, Stephen L. Hoffman, Robert C. Rockhill, Sri Pandam Pulungsih |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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Male Salmonella medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epidemiology Widal test medicine.disease_cause Salmonella typhi Antibodies Typhoid fever Direct agglutination test Internal medicine medicine Humans Typhoid Fever Child Aged Rapid diagnostic test medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Antibody titer Hemagglutination Tests Middle Aged medicine.disease Test (assessment) Hospitalization Evaluation Studies as Topic Indonesia Child Preschool Immunology Female business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Epidemiology. 123:869-875 |
| ISSN: | 1476-6256 0002-9262 |
| Popis: | The Widal slide agglutination test was evaluated as a rapid diagnostic test in typhoid fever patients at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia from 1980-1982. The results of the test can be available within 45 minutes of patient admission. The study showed that, among 229 patients with Salmonella typhi-positive typhoid fever and 179 control fever patients, when the Widal O antibody titer was greater than or equal to 1:20 the sensitivity was 53%, the specificity 98%, the positive predictive value 96%, and the negative predictive value 68%. A negative Widal test (O antibody titer less than 1:20) does not provide useful information, but when the O antibody titer is greater than or equal to 1:20 the clinician at the Infectious Diseases Hospital of Jakarta can be 96% certain that the patient has typhoid fever. |
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