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Widal test

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Wi·dal test (v-däl)
n.
A test of blood serum that uses an agglutination reaction to diagnose typhoid fever.

Widal test [ve-dahl´]
a test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever, based on agglutination of Salmonella typhosa by dilutions of the patient's serum.


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The HBsAg, antiHbc IgM, antiHAV IgM, antiHCV, antiCMV IgM, anti-VCA IgM and Gruber Widal tests were negative.
Results of paired acute- and convalescent-phase serologic testing for dengue immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG were negative, as were the microscopic agglutination test for leptospirosis and the Widal test for typhoid.
 
 
 
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