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Weil–Felix Med.|vaɪlˈfiːlɪks|
[The names of Edmund Weil (1880–1922), Austrian physician, and Arthur Felix (1887–1956), Polish bacteriologist, who described the reaction in 1916 (Wien. klin. Wochenschr. XXIX. 33).]
Weil–Felix reaction: an agglutination reaction which takes place when serum from a patient infected with typhus is added to certain strains of bacteria of the genus Proteus, used as a diagnostic test for the disease.
1919Public Health Rep. (U.S.) XXXI. 2446 The Weil–Felix reaction..has recently come into use as a means of diagnosing typhus fever. 1956Nature 11 Feb. 257/2 The Weil–Felix reaction..proved of immense value in the differential diagnosis of typhus from typhoid and other fevers of unknown origin, and stimulated a great deal of research to explain why it was possible to obtain a specific agglutination reaction with an organism playing apparently no part in the causation of the disease. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Med. LXXI. 509 The Weil–Felix reaction, which is the only generally available diagnostic test, failed to detect over 50% of proven cases in several series. |