LAB DIAGNOSIS OF TYPHOID FEVER : UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING

Samples

Blood

90% positive in First week

75% Positive in second week

60% positive in third week

25% positive till the fever subsides

Serum

Urine

Stool

BILE STAINED EGGS - PARASITES

BILE STAINED EGGS

MNEMONIC - "TAT"

Trichuris trichura 

Egg of Trichuris trichura 

Ascaris lumbricoides 

Egg of Ascaris lumbricoides

Taenia Solium & Taenia Saginata

Egg of Taenia Species 

NON BILE STAINED EGGS - PARASITES

NON BILE STAINED EGGS

MNEMONIC - "A HEN"

Ancylostoma duodenale 

Hymenolepis nana

Enterobius vermicularis 

Necator americanus 

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