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 ...

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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 ...

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test, a popular laboratory investigation prescribed by many hospitals for the diagnosis of typhoid in Nigeria, is no longer valid for the clinical diagnosis and ...

India faces a surge in typhoid cases, exacerbated by unreliable diagnostic methods like the Widal test, leading to misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. The rise in cases is further complicated by ...

The Commissioner for Health in Anambra State, Vincent Okpala, has said that Typhoid fever in Nigeria is not as common as it has been made to be. Mr Okpala told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka ...

ISLAMABAD: The country’s top public health institute, the National Institute of Health (NIH), has directed health facilities and practitioners across the country to stop prescribing two basic tests of ...