Lab Investigations Details

Typhoid Fever


Alternate Name: Enteric Fever

Test:

B.culture (+), faecal culture (+), U.culture (+), Hb(L), WCC (L), Widal antibody test (RT)

Sign:

Dicrotic pulse, diarrhoea, splenomegaly

Dd:

Septicaemia, TB, viral infections, Q fever, psitta-cosis

Phys:

Caused by Salmonella typhi