At a Glance
Package: Basic Fever Package. Tests: 45 parameters, 5 components. Price: From 699. Fasting: Not required. Sample: Blood and urine, single visit. Reports: 12 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited. The entry tier: malaria and typhoid tested directly, the urine screened for infection, and the blood count read alongside a pathologist-prepared slide. One limitation decides whether it suits you — there is no dengue test in this package. If the fever began within the past week and dengue is plausible, the Advance Fever Package adds Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid), Typhidot by ELISA and Kidney and Liver Function to this same base. ## One Day, Not Two The 12-hour turnaround is worth most to someone who cannot afford a second day away from work. A sample given at home in the morning reports by evening, so the collection, the result and the doctor's visit fit inside one day — rather than half a day at a collection centre and another waiting for a report. The collection costs no leave at all, because the phlebotomist comes to you: free across NIT 2, Sector 7, Sector 11, Sector 29, Sector 37, Sector 55, Old Faridabad, Ballabgarh, Sarai Khawaja and Dabua Colony. One honest note if you have kept working physically through the fever: this tier has no Kidney Function Test and no Liver Function Test, the profiles that track dehydration and organ involvement. The Advance and Comprehensive Fever Packages carry both. ## Two Tests for Malaria, Only One of Which Looks MALARIA ANTIGEN -EIA (1) detects parasite protein by enzyme immunoassay, giving a fast answer without anyone needing to find a parasite. Its limitation is timing — antigen can stay detectable for days after treatment has cleared the parasites. The other method is the Hemoparasites finding on the Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination, where a qualified pathologist looks for malarial parasites inside your red blood cells directly. Malaria is endemic across Delhi NCR, and the two together say more than either alone. Parasites are easier to find on a slide taken during or just after a temperature spike. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination The slide carries four more findings beyond Hemoparasites: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, and a written Impression from the pathologist. Platelets is the one a doctor treating fever checks hardest, because a falling platelet count is the key monitoring parameter in dengue, and analysers count a clump of stuck-together platelets as a single cell — printing a dangerously low number for someone whose true count is fine. A pathologist sees the clumps for what they are. Red Blood Cells gives direction to a low haemoglobin the count can only flag: small pale microcytic cells fit iron deficiency, large macrocytic cells fit B12 or folate deficiency, sickle shapes fit sickle cell disease. White Blood Cells can show blast cells that raise the possibility of leukaemia. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21), so a low haemoglobin on a fever report is common enough to deserve an explanation. None of this is automatable. A person prepares each slide and reads it — pathologist time rather than analyser throughput, and the line item dropped first when a fever package is priced down. ## Typhoid Testing: What Widal Can and Cannot Show Widal (Slide Agglutination Test) detects antibodies against Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi, the long-standing first-line typhoid screen in India, with well-documented limits. It cross-reacts with other Salmonella species, and antibodies persist after a past infection or a typhoid vaccination, so a single positive result in an endemic area does not establish current infection. Titres need roughly a week of illness to rise, so a sample drawn on day 2 or 3 can read negative in someone who does have typhoid. A confident interpretation classically needs paired samples 7 to 10 days apart showing a rising titre. Typhidot, which detects IgM and IgG antibodies specific to Salmonella typhi and turns positive earlier in the illness, is not here — it sits in the Advance and Comprehensive Fever Packages. One caveat covers all three tiers: blood culture remains the reference standard for typhoid, and none of these packages includes it. If your doctor needs certainty before starting an antibiotic, ask for one before the first dose. ## The Other 2 Components CBC with ESR (21): haemoglobin, RBC and platelet counts, haematocrit, the full white cell differential and the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate — the pattern-reading component. A low platelet count with a raised haematocrit suggests dengue, a neutrophil-predominant rise suggests bacterial infection, lymphocytosis a viral one. Complete Urine Analysis (17): protein, glucose, nitrites, leukocytes, pus cells, red cells, casts and crystals — the screen that names urinary infection as the fever source, a cause blood tests miss. It detects overt proteinuria, not microalbuminuria. ## Limitations No dengue, chikungunya, scrub typhus, leptospira, COVID-19 or influenza test. No Kidney or Liver Function Test, no blood culture, no C-Reactive Protein, no Procalcitonin, no imaging. A normal result does not name a cause; it shortens the list. Fever with breathlessness, persistent vomiting, bleeding, drowsiness or falling urine output needs in-person assessment, not a repeat blood test. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026
