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Detection of Circulating VZV-Glycoprotein E-Specific Antibodies by Chemiluminescent Immunoassay (CLIA) for Varicella–Zoster Diagnosis

Pathogens, 2022
Varicella and herpes zoster are mild symptoms-associated diseases caused by varicella–zoster virus (VZV). They often cause severe complications (disseminated zoster), leading to death when diagnoses and treatment are delayed. However, most commercial VZV
Arnaud John Kombe Kombe, Jiajia Xie, Ayesha Zahid, Huan Ma, Guangtao Xu, Yiyu Deng, Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe, Ahmed Mohammed, Zhao Dan, Yunru Yang, Chen Feng, Weihong Zeng, Ruixue Chang, Keyuan Zhu, Siping Zhang, Tengchuan Jin   +15 more
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Simple Noninvasive Scores Are Clinically Useful to Exclude, Not Predict, Advanced Fibrosis: A Study in Turkish Patients with Biopsy-Proven Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Gut and Liver, 2020
Background/Aims: Advanced fibrosis (F≥3) indicates poor outcomes in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Here, we examined the diagnostic performance of the fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4) and NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) for detecting (or excluding ...
Eda Kaya, Alev Bakir, Haluk Tarik Kani, Coskun Ozer Demirtas, Caglayan Keklikkiran, Yusuf Yilmaz   +5 more
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Requirements for Diagnosis of Malaria at Different Levels of the Laboratory Network in Africa. [PDF]

, 2009
The rapid increase of resistance to cheap, reliable antimalarials, the increasing cost of effective drugs, and the low specificity of clinical diagnosis has increased the need for more reliable diagnostic methods for malaria.
Barnish, Earl G. Long, Hopkins, Rafael, Redd, World Health Organization   +5 more
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Meta-analysis and multidisciplinary consensus statement: exome sequencing is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders

Genetics in Medicine, 2019
For neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), etiological evaluation can be a diagnostic odyssey involving numerous genetic tests, underscoring the need to develop a streamlined algorithm maximizing molecular diagnostic yield for this clinical indication. Our
S. Srivastava, Jamie A. Love-Nichols, K. Dies, D. Ledbetter, C. Martin, W. Chung, H. Firth, Thomas W. Frazier, R. Hansen, L. Prock, Han Brunner, N. Hoang, S. Scherer, M. Sahin, David T. Miller   +14 more
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Salivary diagnostic tests [PDF]

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2012
The guest editor of this special supplement to JADA provides an overview of salivary diagnostic testing and introduces the articles presented in this supplement to The Journal of the American Dental Association.
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Rapid testing for malaria in settings where microscopy is available and peripheral clinics where only presumptive treatment is available: a randomised controlled trial in Ghana. [PDF]

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: To test in West Africa the impact of rapid diagnostic tests on the prescription of antimalarials and antibiotics both where microscopy is used for the diagnosis of malaria and in clinical (peripheral) settings that rely on clinical diagnosis ...
Akanpigbiam, Samson, Ansah, Evelyn K, Epokor, Michael, Gyapong, John, Narh-Bana, Solomon, Quartey, Alberta Amu, Whitty, Christopher JM   +6 more
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MicroRNAs in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: What Is New in Diagnosis and Treatment

Frontiers in Oncology, 2022
IntroductionPapillary thyroid cancer (PTC) accounts for up to 80% of thyroid malignancies. New diagnostic and therapeutic options are suggested including innovative molecular methods.
Maria Papaioannou, Angeliki G. Chorti, Anthoula Chatzikyriakidou, Kleanthis Giannoulis, Sohail Bakkar, Theodosios S. Papavramidis   +5 more
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Diagnostic test accuracy: application and practice using R software

Epidemiology and Health, 2019
The objective of this paper is to describe general approaches of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) that are available for the quantitative synthesis of data using R software.
S. Shim, Seong-Jang Kim, Jonghoo Lee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fundamentals and Applications of the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Analysis in the Research of Endothelial Dysfunction in Chronic Kidney Disease

Life, 2022
Endothelial dysfunction (ED) starts early in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is the hallmark of atherosclerosis in these patients. During recent years, numerous markers have emerged, aiming to predict the onset of ED in CKD patients. Therefore, there is
Stefanos Roumeliotis, Samar Abd ElHafeez, Graziella D’Arrigo, Maria Fusaro, Daniela Leonardis, Sabrina Mezzatesta, Giovanni Tripepi   +6 more
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Clinical implications of using adrenocorticotropic hormone diagnostic cutoffs or reference intervals to diagnose pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction in mature horses

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2021
Background Diagnosis of pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) is problematic because of large variations in ACTH concentrations. Hypothesis/Objectives Compare the test characteristics of baseline and post–thyrotropin‐releasing hormone (TRH ...
Remona Horn, Allison J. Stewart, Karen V. Jackson, Elizabeth L. Dryburgh, Carlos E. Medina‐Torres, François‐René Bertin   +5 more
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