ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2014 | Volume
: 1 | Issue : 3 | Page : 150--153
A hospital based study of rickettsial diseases evidenced by Weil Felix test in a tertiary care hospital
Uttam Udayan, Meena Dias, Santosh Machado
Department of Microbiology, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Meena Dias
Associate Professor, S 3, Casa Leila, S.L Mathias Road, Falnir, Mangalore - 575 002, Karnataka
India
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 illness in many populations. A delay in diagnosis and therapy are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Objectives: To determine and categorize rickettsial disease titers by Weil Felix test, and to know the frequency of rickettsial diseases in febrile patients presenting to a tertiary hospital. Materials and Methods: In a prospective study, a total of 100 samples were tested by Weil Felix test from patients with fever and results were analyzed. Results: Out of 100 samples 64 were positive. Male preponderance was seen. The most common clinical symptom were fever, rash followed by hepatomegaly and splenomegaly. One patient with a high titer of more than 1280 died of encephalitis. Conclusion: In the absence of availability of a good reliable serological or molecular evidence, Weil Felix test can be used in the laboratories mainly due to cost and technical aspects of other reliable tests for diagnosis.
How to cite this article:
Udayan U, Dias M, Machado S. A hospital based study of rickettsial diseases evidenced by Weil Felix test in a tertiary care hospital.CHRISMED J Health Res 2014;1:150-153
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Udayan U, Dias M, Machado S. A hospital based study of rickettsial diseases evidenced by Weil Felix test in a tertiary care hospital. CHRISMED J Health Res [serial online] 2014 [cited 2023 Mar 21 ];1:150-153
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