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How the Widal test is clouding India’s sense of its typhoid problem | Explained

More often than not, the experience for patients with a fever is to get tested and treated for a typhoid infection. Against this backdrop, in India, clinicians use the Widal test extensively to diagnose typhoid in both public and private sectors. A single positive Widal test report doesn’t necessarily mean a typhoid infection is present, and a negative report doesn’t confirm the disease’s absence. Because of the Widal test’s propensity for erroneous results, the actual burden of typhoid in India remains obfuscated. Patients in many States have also reported being charged Rs 500 to Rs 4,000 per dose of antibiotic injections by local healthcare providers following a typhoid diagnosis based on a single Widal test.

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