Weil Felix Test

🔍 Overview

The Weil Felix Test is a blood test used to help diagnose rickettsial infections such as scrub typhus, typhus fever, and spotted fever. It detects antibodies in the patient’s serum that react with specific Proteus antigens (OX2, OX19, OXK).

📋 Test Summary

This test helps to:

• Screen for rickettsial infections

• Support diagnosis in fever of unknown origin

• Differentiate between scrub typhus and other rickettsial fevers

• Assist clinicians in early treatment decisions

• Monitor immune response in suspected cases

✔ Simple and cost-effective screening test
✔ Commonly used in endemic and resource-limited settings

⏱ Reports Within: 8 Hours
🧪 Sample: Blood
👶👩👨 Age: All Age Groups
🚻 Gender: Male and Female
🍽 Fasting: Not Required