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 Gurgaon. Lab: NABL-accredited. This is the fever workup for an illness that has already run several days. Its one real advantage over the Advance Fever Package is dengue coverage: three dengue markers instead of one — NS1 antigen, IgM and IgG — which together span a wider window of the illness than NS1 alone. Everything else is broadly the same base: CBC with ESR, a pathologist-read blood smear, malaria antigen, a typhoid antibody test, and full Liver, Kidney and urine profiles. If your fever started in the last four or five days, the Advance Fever Package covers you; further in than that, this is the version to take. ## Three Dengue Markers Cover a Wider Window of Illness Dengue testing is a timing problem, and this package is built around it. Dengue NS1 Antigen (Rapid) detects a protein the virus itself makes. It is detectable from roughly day 1 to day 7 of fever and is the test for the early febrile phase. Dengue IgM (Rapid) appears around day 4 to day 5 and indicates current or recent infection. Dengue IgG (Rapid) suggests past infection — or, when it rises together with IgM, a secondary infection, which matters because second dengue infections carry a higher risk of severe disease. Put together, the practical consequence is this: a patient presenting on day 6 of fever may be NS1-negative and IgM-positive. An NS1 test alone would have called that patient negative. That is the concrete, explainable reason to choose this package over the Advance Fever Package, which carries NS1 only. What none of the three can do: they establish whether dengue is present, not how severe it will become. Severity is judged on the platelet count, the haematocrit and clinical warning signs. All three markers here are rapid methods; your doctor may confirm an ambiguous result with an ELISA-based assay. ## Typhoid and Malaria Testing Typhidot - Titre - Serum (IgG IgM By Card) detects IgM and IgG antibodies to Salmonella typhi by a card method, 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 often falsely positive in endemic areas such as Delhi NCR, and classically needs paired samples 7 to 10 days apart. Typhidot avoids most of that. A factual note on method, since people compare the tiers: the Advance Fever Package runs Typhidot by ELISA, while this package runs the card/titre format. Both detect S. Typhi IgM and IgG by different platforms, and the method used is stated on your report. Choose this package 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 or changing 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 some days after treatment has cleared the parasites, so timing affects interpretation. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination A qualified pathologist prepares a slide from your sample and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell. It cannot be automated — it is pathologist time rather than machine time, which is why it is the line item dropped first to hold a price point. Five findings are reported: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites, and a written Impression. In a package built around dengue, the platelet assessment carries the most weight. Falling platelets are the key monitoring parameter, and automated counters misread platelet clumping as a dangerously low count — the pathologist catches that artefact before anyone acts on a false alarm. Hemoparasites means malarial parasites are looked for inside red blood cells directly, alongside the antigen assay. And where the count shows anaemia, the smear explains it: microcytic cells point to iron deficiency, macrocytic to B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped to sickle cell disease, blast cells to 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 full white cell differential and ESR — the values a doctor tracks day to day in dengue. Liver Function Test (12): Bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT, GGT, ALP and proteins; transaminases commonly rise in both dengue and typhoid. Kidney Function Test (12): Urea, creatinine, electrolytes and GFR, which reflect dehydration and fluid shifts in a prolonged fever. Complete Urine Analysis (17): Nitrites, leukocytes, pus cells, protein and casts — identifies urinary infection, a fever source no blood test finds. ## Limitations No chikungunya IgM, scrub typhus, leptospira, COVID-19 or influenza test, no blood culture, no Procalcitonin, no CRP, no imaging. Fever with breathlessness, persistent vomiting, bleeding, drowsiness or falling urine output needs urgent in-person assessment. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026