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What Does Positive Typhoid Test Report After Having Antibiotic Treatment Indicate?
Hi. I wanna ask some questions about my wife... she got ill some 8 months ago with continuous fever and pain in her lower chest, abdomen and whole body...it was diagnosed Typhoid... Dr here gave treatment with antibiotics and pain killers...but after 3 months her typhoid reports were still +ve
Thu, 14 May 2015
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Welcome to HCM..
Persistent positive typhoid report could be due to false positive test or could be reinfection or drug resistant typhoid fever. Sir, please give details whether your wife has still fever and details of medication which she had taken before.
Thank you
Welcome to HCM..
Persistent positive typhoid report could be due to false positive test or could be reinfection or drug resistant typhoid fever. Sir, please give details whether your wife has still fever and details of medication which she had taken before.
Thank you
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