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 Gurgaon. Lab: NABL-accredited. Fever lasting more than two days in Delhi NCR has a short list of likely causes: dengue, typhoid, malaria, chikungunya, a urinary tract infection, or an ordinary self-limiting viral illness. This package tests for malaria and typhoid directly, screens the urine for infection, and reads the blood count and the blood smear for the patterns those illnesses produce. It is the entry tier, and there is one thing you should know before choosing it: it contains no dengue test. If you are in the first week of fever and dengue is a realistic possibility — which in Gurgaon between August and November it usually is — the Advance Fever Package adds Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid), Typhidot by ELISA, Liver Function and Kidney Function to this same base. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination This is the component that separates a fever workup from a blood count, and it cannot be automated. A qualified pathologist prepares a slide from your sample and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell. That is pathologist time rather than machine time, which is why it is the line item dropped first to hold a price point. The profile reports five findings — Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites, and a written Impression from the pathologist. Two of those matter directly in fever. Hemoparasites means the pathologist looks for malarial parasites inside your red blood cells — direct visual evidence of infection, in a region where malaria is endemic. And Platelets matter because falling platelet counts are the single most important thing to track in dengue: automated analysers can misread clumped platelets as a dangerously low count, and a pathologist reviewing the slide catches that artefact before anyone acts on it. The smear also explains anaemia a count can only flag. A CBC says haemoglobin is low; the smear says why. Microcytic red cells point to iron deficiency, macrocytic cells to B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped cells to sickle cell disease. It detects blast cells that may indicate leukaemia. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21), so an incidental low haemoglobin in a fever panel is common and worth understanding. ## Typhoid Testing: What Widal Can and Cannot Show Widal (Slide Agglutination Test) detects antibodies against Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi. It is the long-standing, widely available typhoid screen, and its limitations are well documented and worth stating plainly. Widal cross-reacts with other Salmonella species, and antibodies persist after past infection or typhoid vaccination, so a single positive result in an endemic area such as Delhi NCR does not establish current infection. Antibody titres also take about a week of illness to rise, which means a Widal taken on day 2 or 3 of fever can be negative in someone who does have typhoid. A confident interpretation traditionally needs paired samples drawn 7 to 10 days apart to show a rising titre. Typhidot, which detects IgM and IgG antibodies specific to Salmonella typhi and turns positive earlier in the illness than Widal, is not in this package. It is in the Advance Fever Package and the Comprehensive Fever Package. And one honest caveat applies to all three: blood culture remains the reference standard for diagnosing typhoid, and none of these packages includes it. If your doctor needs certainty — particularly before starting or changing antibiotics — a blood culture is the test to ask for. ## The Other 3 Components CBC with ESR (21): Haemoglobin, RBC and platelet counts, the full white cell differential and ESR. In fever this is the pattern-reading component — a low platelet count with a raised haematocrit suggests dengue, a neutrophil-predominant rise suggests bacterial infection, lymphocytosis suggests a viral one. MALARIA ANTIGEN -EIA (1): An enzyme immunoassay for malarial antigen, read alongside the smear; antigen tests can stay positive for days after treatment, so timing matters. Complete Urine Analysis (17): Colour, appearance, protein, glucose, nitrites, leukocytes, pus cells, red cells, casts and crystals — the screen that identifies a urinary tract infection as the source of fever, a common cause that blood tests alone miss entirely. ## Limitations This package does not test for dengue, chikungunya, scrub typhus, COVID-19 or influenza, and it does not include a blood culture or a chest X-ray. A normal result does not identify a cause; it narrows the list. Fever with breathlessness, persistent vomiting, bleeding, drowsiness or falling urine output needs in-person medical assessment, not a repeat blood test. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026
