Diseases | Test |
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Rickettsial Infections | |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus (murine, scrub, epidemic, and recrudescent) | Weil-Felix reaction (Proteus antigen test) |
Salmonella Infections | |
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | Widal's test (O and H antigen tests) |
Brucella Infections | |
Cattle, hog, goat (Hosts may transmit infections to humans.) | Brucella agglutination test (slide agglutination test) |
Tularemia | |
Rabbit fever and deer fly fever | Tularemia agglutination test (tube dilution test) |