[Study of the Widal test phenotypic expression of blood groups ABO, Rh and MNSs in patients with typhoid fever].

Article

[Study of the Widal test phenotypic expression of blood groups ABO, Rh and MNSs in patients with typhoid fever].

Revista medica de Chile - 1 Sept 1992

Herrera P, Valenzuela C Y

Abstract excerpt

The significance of the Widal test (WT) as a phenotypical expression was investigated in a cross-sectional study of 244 children from the Northern Area of Santiago (Chile) with bacteriologically confirmed typhoid fever (TF) due to S. typhi (183 cases) and S. paratyphi B (61 cases). The working hypothesis was that if the parasite-host relationships were similar for these two agents the immune response, as measured...

Topics

Adolescent
Blood Group Antigens
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Hematologic Tests
Humans
Infant
Male
Phenotype
Typhoid Fever

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Identifiers

PMID: 1340992

Genes

ABO

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