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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"Diagnostic tests"”.
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Utility of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis using human urine
… with high mortality rates, sputum-based diagnostic tools are unhelpful. Urine-based diagnostics offer an attractive, easily available alternative for rapid diagnosis. We evaluated the point-of-care urine LAM strip test (Determine TB LAM Ag test, Alere) and urine-based Xpert MTB/RIF for TB …
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Engineering non-immunoglobulin binding proteins for in vitro diagnostic Tests
… regions often lack access to rapid and accurate diagnostic tests to appropriately diagnose and treat these diseases. In order to improve the accessibility of diagnostics, the development of low-cost, simple, and rapid diagnostic tests is vital. Antibodies have been widely used as the binding …
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Innovative Multivariate Meta-Analyses Methods For Diagnostic Tests And Multiple Treatments
… and supporting healthcare decision-making on diagnostic tests and multiple treatments. Assessing a diagnostic test often lacks a gold standard, i.e., a perfect reference test. Without a gold standard, a pragmatic approach is to postulate a ``reference standard'' from two index tests, however, …
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Bayesian methods to estimate the accuracy of diagnostic tests in meta-analysis models.
… number of studies looking at the performance of diagnostic tests, combining the studies into a meta-analysis becomes an important and increasingly viable area of statistics, especially within the medical field. We begin by developing a hierarchical Bayesian prior structure to estimate prevalences …
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Evaluations of Diagnostic Tests for Undifferentiated Febrile Illness on the Thailand-Myanmar (Burma) Border
… febrile illness in Southeast Asia. Current diagnostic tests are inadequate for clinical use. Methods We conducted a two year prospective fever study in three outpatient clinics on the Thailand-Myanmar border, recruiting patients aged at least five years with acute undifferentiated febrile …
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Testing for relationship between diagnostic tests and DC BDV of in-serviced aged stator bars of a hydro generator
… users implement condition monitoring (CM), diagnostic tests and condition-based maintenance in order to mitigate risk. The contribution was executed in the form of removing aged stator bars from a generator and subjecting the bars to various diagnostic and direct current (DC) HV tests, …
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Factors Influencing Utilization of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Chipata District's Rural, Peri-Urban and Urban Health Centers in Eastern Province
… that contribute to utilization of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (MRDTs) at the district health centres A Cross-sectional research study was conducted in Chipata's 13 district health centres and were sampled proportionate to size using rotary technique. A sample of 42 health workers who routinely …
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Factors Influencing Utilization of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Chipata District's Rural, Peri-Urban and Urban Health Centers in Eastern Province
… that contribute to utilization of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (MRDTs) at the district health centres A Cross-sectional research study was conducted in Chipata's 13 district health centres and were sampled proportionate to size using rotary technique. A sample of 42 health workers who routinely …
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Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial drugs and malaria rapid diagnostic tests within the context of effective vector control : case study of Southern Africa
… as part of malaria case management, using rapid diagnostic tests (ROTs), was undertaken at two districts (Namaacha and Matutuine), in southern Mozambique, where routine use of ROTs and treating malaria patients with an ACT (using artesunate + SP) were implemented at pilot level in 2003.
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Tuberculous pleural effusions : a prospective study of rapid diagnostic tests (adenosine deaminase, antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the polymerase chain reaction) and evaluation of a radiometric mycobacterial culture system
A prospective study was undertaken to assess the diagnostic value of various rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in pleural fluid, and to assess the sensitivity and speed of a radiometric mycobacterial culture system (BACTEC, Johnson Laboratories). Patients presenting to the Department of …
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CAPRI : a common architecture for distributed probabilistic Internet fault diagnosis
… (CAPRI) in which distributed, heterogeneous diagnostic agents efficiently conduct diagnostic tests and communicate observations, beliefs, and knowledge to probabilistically infer the cause of network failures. Unlike previous systems that can only diagnose a limited set of network component …
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Statistical methods for multivariate meta-analysis
… not yet well developed: network meta-analysis of diagnostic tests, meta-analysis of observational studies accounting for exposure misclassification, and meta-regression methods adjusting for post-randomization variables. In studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests, three designs are …
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Paper-based Molecular Technologies for Faster, More Accessible Infectious Disease Diagnostics
… the cost and infrastructure needs of current diagnostic methods. Technologies that utilize low-cost materials and easy-to-use methods could help address this issue. Diagnostic tests made from cellulose paper that use colorimetric readouts—where a visible color appears if disease biomarkers are …
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Targeting Proteins of Aspergillus fumigatus for Monoclonal Antibody Production
… are not specific to fungal infections, and the diagnostic tests currently in use are unreliable. It is well known that the organisms that cause IA shed protein antigens into body fluids once inside the host. In previous studies, our lab detected PPIase, Eglc, Ecm33, TrxR and CatB in IA mouse …
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Qualidade dos serviços de saúde: uma análise das Unidades Básicas de Saúde em municípios paraibanos de pequeno porte com base na avaliação externa do 1º ciclo PMAQ-AB
… material and human resources, supplies, diagnostic tests and immunobiologicals. It was accomplished one quantitative and qualitative study of descriptive and exploratory type, with documentary and bibliographical research design, whose data were analyzed descriptively through absolute …
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Development of protein microarrays for the investigation of host-pathogen interactions
… and immunocompromised patients. Current sérodiagnostic assays are either based on crude whole cell lysates or glycoprotein preparations lacking high specificity and sensitivity. The work presented here investigates the humoral immune response to VZV infection in more detail, to better …
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A Novel Model of “Remedy and Elimination of Tuberculosis”
… done by looking at the history of tuberculosis, diagnostic tests and global impact related to public health with a focus for the newer diagnostic tests that could potentially help reduce the burden of this disease.</p>
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Building capacity for diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in South Africa: a descriptive study
… characterized by abnormal cilia motility. Diagnostic capacity for PCD in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA) is limited; and incidence of PCD and genotype in sSA is unknown. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of PCD in children and adults with suspected PCD using a range of specialized diagnostic …
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