Correlation between C-Reactive Protein Concentrations and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Patients with Positive Widal Test

Citra Yolanda Sari, Budi Santosa, M. Evy Prastiyanto

2018

Abstract

Clinical symptomps of typhoid and paratyphoid fever greatly vary, while the gold standard of its laboratory examination is bacterial culture which commonly takes 3 days for the results. Further tests should be performed to support diagnosis of this disease. The tests possibly performed to patients with suspected typhoid are C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). CRP is an acute-phase protein that is tested to nonspecifically monitor the occurrence of an infection, while ESR is a nonspecific test for inflammation which is clinically functional for screening inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study is to determine the correlation between CRP and ESR in patients with positive Widal test. This study uses correlation analysis to 30 samples which fit inclusion criteria in RS Roemani Muhammadiyah Semarang and are obtained by purposive sampling. The samples were tested the CRP concentration by semi-quantitative latex immunoagglutination method and were tested the ESR by westergren method. The results shows average concentration of CRP was 18.40 mg/L, and average number of ESR was 15.20 mm/h. Statistical analysis uses in this study is pearson correlation test. A strong and significant correlation between CRP and ESR in patients with positive Widal with p-value = 0.000 (p < 0.05) and r = 0.886 is obtained.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sari C., Santosa B. and Prastiyanto M. (2018). Correlation between C-Reactive Protein Concentrations and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Patients with Positive Widal Test.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Postgraduate School - Volume 1: ICPS, ISBN 978-989-758-348-3, pages 436-439. DOI: 10.5220/0007544504360439

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icps18,
author={Citra Yolanda Sari and Budi Santosa and M. Evy Prastiyanto},
title={Correlation between C-Reactive Protein Concentrations and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Patients with Positive Widal Test},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Postgraduate School - Volume 1: ICPS,},
year={2018},
pages={436-439},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007544504360439},
isbn={978-989-758-348-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Postgraduate School - Volume 1: ICPS,
TI - Correlation between C-Reactive Protein Concentrations and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Patients with Positive Widal Test
SN - 978-989-758-348-3
AU - Sari C.
AU - Santosa B.
AU - Prastiyanto M.
PY - 2018
SP - 436
EP - 439
DO - 10.5220/0007544504360439