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Laboratory evaluation of four HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
BackgroundSexually transmitted infections, such as HIV and syphilis, are one of the major health care problems worldwide, especially in low- and middle income countries. HIV screening programmes have been widely used for many years.
A. van den Heuvel, H. Smet, Irena Prat, A. Sands, W. Urassa, K. Fransen, T. Crucitti   +6 more
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Pulp Diagnostic Tests

Bezmiâlem Science, 2014
Pulp diagnostic tests evaluate the neuropsychological status and blood flow of the pulp. These tests can be used in conjunction with other clinical tests, such as periodontal probing, percussion, palpation, mobility, and anesthesia, during diagnostic ...
Aysun KARA TUNCER, Müzeyyen KAYATAŞ, Safa TUNCER   +2 more
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]

, 2012
Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary
Alexandre Harari, Alimuddin Zumla, Armand, Axelsson-Robertson, Banada, Ben Marais, Betsou, Blakemore, Boehme, Boehme, Cattamanchi, Chow, Cuevas, Cuevas, Cuevas, Cuevas, Diel, Dowdy, Dye, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Ferrara, Giovanni-Batista Migliori, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Green, Harari, Helb, Helen Cox, Hillemann, Hohn, Ibrahim Abubakar, Jeremiah Chakaya, John, Justin O’Grady, Karin Weyer, Keeler, Kemp, Kunnath-Velayudhan, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lemaire, Lin, Ling, Liu, Long, Lucica Ditui, Lynn Zijenah, Mann, Marais, Marais, Marais, Marais, Marco Schito, Markus Maeurer, Marlowe, Martin P. Grobusch, Martina Casenghi, Matthew Bates, McNerney, Michael Hoelscher, Michel Pletschette, Minion, Moore, Morris, Mwaba, Nathan Ford, Nathanson, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Nicol, Nicol, Oberhelman, O’Grady, Peter, Peter Mwaba, Peter S. Kim, Rifat Atun, Rose, Ruth McNerney, S. Bertel Squire, Samana Schwank, Sester, Shah, Soumya Swaminathan, Squire, Squire, Steingart, Steingart, Steingart, Steve Lawn, Storla, Temple, Theron, Timothy D. Mchugh, Treatment Action Group, Tully, Vadwai, Van Rie, van Wyk, Wallis, Walzl, Weyer, Wilson, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Wright, Wright, Zar, Ziad Memish, Zumla, Zumla   +118 more
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Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data

Comput. Math. Methods Medicine, 2019
Diagnostic tests are approaches used in clinical practice to identify with high accuracy the disease of a particular patient and thus to provide early and proper treatment.
Sorana D. Bolboacă
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Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Maintaining quality, competitiveness and innovation in global health technology is a constant challenge for manufacturers, while affordability, access and equity are challenges for governments and international agencies.
Theodoor Visser, Jennifer Daily, Nora Hotte, Caitlin Dolkart, Jane Cunningham, Prashant Yadav   +5 more
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Impact of a decreasing pre-test probability on the performance of diagnostic tests for coronary artery disease.

European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging, 2019
AIMS To provide a pooled estimation of contemporary pre-test probabilities (PTPs) of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) across clinical patient categories, re-evaluate the utility of the application of diagnostic techniques according to such ...
L. Juárez-Orozco, A. Saraste, D. Capodanno, E. Prescott, H. Ballo, Jeroen J. Bax, W. Wijns, J. Knuuti   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multimodal optical diagnostics of the microhaemodynamics in upper and lower limbs [PDF]

, 2019
The introduction of optical non-invasive diagnostic methods into clinical practice can substantially advance in the detection of early microcirculatory disorders in patients with different diseases.
Dremin, Viktor V., Dunaev, Andrey V., Goltsov, Alexey, Makovik, Irina N., Rafailov, Edik U., Sokolovski, Sergei G., Zherebtsov, Evgeny A., Zherebtsova, Angelina I.   +7 more
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Diagnostic test evaluation methodology: A systematic review of methods employed to evaluate diagnostic tests in the absence of gold standard – An update

PLoS ONE, 2019
Objective To systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard.
Chinyereugo M Umemneku Chikere, K. Wilson, S. Graziadio, L. Vale, A. Allen   +4 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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Assessing student reasoning in upper-division electricity and magnetism at Oregon State University [PDF]

, 2015
Standardized assessment tests that allow researchers to compare the performance of students under various curricula are highly desirable. There are several research-based conceptual tests that serve as instruments to assess and identify students ...
Manogue, Corinne A., Zwolak, Justyna P.
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