Monitoring of Weil–Felix test in epidemic retinitis: An update [PDF]
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Ankush Kawali +4 more
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Monitoring Weil-Felix test in epidemic retinitis. [PDF]
Indian J Ophthalmol, 2023 Purpose:The objective was to study the positivity of the Weil–Felix test (WFT) in epidemic retinitis (ER) during the course of the disease.Methods:This is a retrospective, observational case series of patients diagnosed with ER and presented to a tertiary eye care hospital in south India.
Kawali A +3 more
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STUDIES ON THE WEIL-FELIX SEROLOGICAL TEST [PDF]
Lancet, The, 1919 n ...
Arthur Compton
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TYPHUS FEVER: OBSERVATIONS ON A SEROLOGICAL TEST WEIL-FELIX REACTION.) [PDF]
Lancet, The, 1918 n ...
N Hamilton Fairley
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Discrepancies in Weil-Felix and microimmunofluorescence test results for Rocky Mountain spotted fever [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1979 Only 4.2% of 284 single specimens and 17.6% of 51 pairs of sera reactive in Weil-Felix agglutination tests for Rocky Mountain spotted fever were confirmed by a specific Rickettsia rickettsii microimmunofluorescence test.
K E Hechemy, R N Philip
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CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2014 Introduction: Rickettsial infections, one of the re-emerging diseases are increasingly underdiagnosed due to nonspecific symptoms, absence of reliable and affordable diagnostic test and contribute substantially to the acute febrile burden and preventive ...
Uttam Udayan +2 more
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Usefulness of next-generation sequencing for laboratory diagnosis of rickettsiosis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesRickettsiosis includes a diversity of culture-negative non-specific systemic infections. Laboratory diagnosis of rickettsiosis is often not easy. In this 12-month study, six patients with a variety of rickettsia infections of the spotted fever group ...
Fanfan Xing +7 more
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Post-fever Retinitis With a Positive Weil-Felix Test: A Study From a Tertiary Center in South India. [PDF]
CureusBackground Post-fever retinitis (PFR) is reported two to six weeks after fever and affects one or both eyes. Rickettsial fever is one of the most common causes of PFR. This study aimed to report the clinical features and treatment outcomes of PFR cases with a positive Weil-Felix test.
Wani V +5 more
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Serological Reactivity of Sera from Scrub Typhus Patients against Weil‐Felix Test Antigens [PDF]
Microbiology and Immunology, 1993 AbstractSera from 17 patients of scrub typhus in the acute and convalescent phases were tested by indirect immunoperoxidase test, Weil‐Felix (WF) test, enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and immunoblotting. In the comparison of antibody titers between acute‐ and convalescent‐phase sera, we recognized a parallelism of increment between the ...
T Suto
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Spatiotemporal epidemiology and clinical manifestations of two decades of scrub typhus in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthBackground Scrub typhus, once known as tsutsugamushi fever and attributed to Rickettsia, has transformed into a growing public health concern. Despite its increasing incidence in India, comprehensive spatiotemporal analyses of scrub typhus have been ...
Amit Sharma +5 more
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