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 ...

Professor Ernest Yorke, has called for urgent reforms in the certification of food vendors, warning that the immunological ...

Wrong widal tests have contributed to the misdiagnosis and poor management of typhoid fever in Nigeria, Daily Trust investigations have shown. A medical laboratory scientist, Ndubuisi Ebitea, said the ...

More often than not, the experience for patients with a fever is to get tested and treated for a typhoid infection. The test is a rapid blood test called the Widal test. The subsequent treatment ...

One of the commonest ailments, among urban Nigerians, is arguably typhoid fever. Once there is a recurrent or resistant fever, many Nigerians, without a clinical analysis, believe the sick person is ...

Monrovia — A prominent global infectious disease expert, Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan has proposed the banning of the Widal Test in Liberia, a serological testing method commonly used for diagnosis of ...

As many as 40 cases were reported in Balrampur (15) and Lokbandhu (25) hospitals in the last 15 days, in which the Widal test, a method of diagnosis of enteric fever or typhoid fever, was positive.