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 Noida. Lab: NABL-accredited. Twelve hours is the figure that decides what this package is worth on the day you use it. A sample drawn at nine in the morning reports by evening, so a doctor seen that night reads numbers instead of guessing, and an antibiotic is started or withheld on evidence. The entry tier tests malaria and typhoid directly, screens the urine for infection, and reads the blood count and a pathologist-prepared smear for the patterns those illnesses leave. 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 full Kidney and Liver Function profiles to this same base. ## 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. Its limits are documented well enough to state plainly. 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 also need roughly a week of illness to rise, so a sample drawn on day 2 or day 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 Fever Package and the Comprehensive Fever Package. 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, drawn before the first dose. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination Four of the five findings in this profile are observations. The fifth is a sentence written by a person. The profile reports Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression from the pathologist who prepared the slide and read it under a microscope, cell by cell. No analyser produces that, which is why it costs what it costs — pathologist time is not machine time, and it is the line item dropped first when a fever package is priced down. Two findings earn their place in fever. Hemoparasites means malarial parasites are searched for inside your red cells directly, not inferred. Platelets matter because a falling platelet count is the key monitoring parameter in dengue, and automated counters can read clumped platelets as a dangerously low number — a false alarm the pathologist catches before anyone acts on it. The smear also answers a question the count can only raise: a CBC reports that 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, and blast cells raise the possibility of leukaemia. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15–49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019–21), so an incidental low haemoglobin on a fever panel is common enough to deserve an explanation. ## The Other 3 Components CBC with ESR (21): Haemoglobin, RBC and platelet counts, haematocrit, the 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. MALARIA ANTIGEN -EIA (1): An enzyme immunoassay for malarial antigen, read alongside the smear; antigen can stay detectable for some days after treatment has cleared the parasites. Complete Urine Analysis (17): Colour, appearance, 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. ## Collection Timing on a Shift Schedule If you work nights or a rotating shift, the workable slot is the one straight after you reach home, not a mid-afternoon appointment you will sleep through. No fasting is required here, so an early-morning collection at the end of a night shift is fine. The day of fever matters far more: note it at booking, because Widal titres need about a week of illness to rise and malarial parasites are easier to find on a smear during or just after a spike. ## Limitations No dengue marker of any kind, and no chikungunya, scrub typhus, leptospira, COVID-19 or influenza 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, 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
