There are currently no blood tests for diagnosing<unk> . The diagnosis is based on the presentation of<unk>  symptoms and does not depend upon isolation of the bacterium, which is recovered from the wound in only 30% of cases and can be isolated from people without<unk> . Laboratory identification of C.<unk> ani can be demonstrated only by production of<unk> pasmin in mice. Having recently experienced head trauma may indicate cephalic<unk>  if no other diagnosis has been made. The "spatula test" is a clinical test for<unk>  that involves touching the posterior pharyngeal wall with a soft-tipped instrument and observing the effect. A positive test result is the involuntary contraction of the jaw (biting down on the "spatula") and a negative test result would normally be a gag reflex attempting to expel the foreign object. A short report in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene states that, in an affected subject research study, the spatula test had a high specificity (zero false-positive test results) and a high sensitivity (94% of infected people produced a positive test).
Tetanus
Brain fever
Leukemia cutis
Metal fume fever
Polymer fume fever
Milk sickness
Enterotoxemia
Tomato fever