At a Glance
Package: Comprehensive Fever Package. Tests: 72 parameters, 10 components. Price: From 1799. Fasting: Not required. Sample: Blood and urine, single visit. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Greater Noida. Lab: NABL-accredited. A dengue illness is rarely one blood test. It is one workup followed by platelet counts over several days, and in Greater Noida that is the difference between one long trip and four. Every repeat count is a phlebotomist returning to your address rather than a patient on day six of a fever being driven across sectors again. The reason to choose this tier in the first place is dengue coverage: three dengue markers instead of one — NS1 antigen, IgM and IgG — which span a wider stretch of the illness than NS1 alone. The rest of the base is shared with the Advance Fever Package: CBC with ESR, a pathologist-read blood smear, malaria antigen, a typhoid antibody test and full Kidney Function, Liver Function and urine profiles. Inside the first four or five days of fever the Advance Fever Package covers you. Past that, this is the tier. ## Three Dengue Markers Cover a Wider Window of Illness Dengue testing is a timing problem. Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid) detects a protein the virus itself makes and is detectable from roughly day 1 to day 7 of fever — the early febrile phase. Dengue IgM (Rapid) appears around day 4 to day 5, indicating current or recent infection. Dengue IgG (Rapid) suggests past infection, or a secondary infection when it rises with IgM — which matters, because second dengue infections carry a higher risk of severe disease. The practical consequence: a patient presenting on day 6 may be NS1-negative and IgM-positive, and an NS1-only test would have returned a negative. What none of the three can do is predict severity. They establish whether dengue is present; severity is judged on the platelet count, the haematocrit and clinical warning signs. All three are rapid methods, and an ambiguous result may be confirmed with an ELISA-based assay. ## Typhoid and Malaria Testing Typhidot - Titre - Serum (IgG IgM By Card) detects IgM and IgG antibodies to Salmonella typhi and turns positive earlier in the illness than the older Widal slide agglutination test used in the Basic Fever Package. Widal cross-reacts with other Salmonella, persists after past infection or vaccination, is frequently falsely positive in endemic areas, and needs paired samples 7 to 10 days apart. On method: the Advance Fever Package runs Typhidot by ELISA, this package the card / titre format; both detect S. Typhi IgM and IgG on different platforms, and the method is printed on your report. Choose this tier for the dengue coverage, not on the typhoid test. Blood culture remains the reference standard for typhoid, and it is not included here. If your doctor needs certainty before starting an antibiotic, ask for one, drawn before the first dose. MALARIA ANTIGEN -EIA is an enzyme immunoassay for malarial antigen; it can stay positive for days after treatment has cleared the parasites, so timing affects how it reads. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination A count answers how many. A microscope answers what, and how much of it. If malaria is the cause, the antigen assay says only that parasite protein is present. Under the microscope a qualified pathologist describes the parasite itself and how heavily the blood is affected — information an antigen result does not carry. That is the Hemoparasites finding on Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination. Four other findings come with it: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets and a written Impression. In a package organised around dengue, the platelet finding is the one that changes decisions — falling platelets are the key monitoring parameter, and automated counters misread clumped platelets as a dangerously low count, which the pathologist catches before anyone acts on a false alarm. Every slide is made and read by hand: pathologist time, not analyser throughput, and the first line item cut when a fever package is priced down. The red cell appearance also gives an anaemia a direction — microcytic cells iron deficiency, macrocytic cells B12 or folate deficiency, sickle shapes sickle cell disease, blast cells possible leukaemia. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21). ## The Other 4 Components CBC with ESR (21): Haemoglobin, platelet count, haematocrit, the white cell differential and ESR — tracked day to day in dengue. Liver Function Test (12): Bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT, GGT, ALP and proteins; transaminases rise in dengue and typhoid. Kidney Function Test (12): Urea, creatinine, electrolytes and GFR, reflecting fluid shifts in prolonged fever. Complete Urine Analysis (17): Nitrites, leukocytes, pus cells, protein and casts — identifies urinary infection, which no blood test finds. It detects overt proteinuria, not microalbuminuria. ## Limitations No chikungunya IgM, scrub typhus, leptospira, COVID-19 or influenza test, no blood culture, no Procalcitonin, no CRP, no imaging. Serial counts are booked separately. Fever with breathlessness, vomiting, bleeding, drowsiness or falling urine output needs urgent in-person assessment. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026