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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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Diagnostic Accuracy of Five Serologic Tests for Strongyloides stercoralis Infection [PDF]

, 2014
Background:The diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis) infection is hampered by the suboptimal sensitivity of fecal-based tests. Serological methods are believed to be more sensitive, although assessing their accuracy is difficult because
Albonico, Marco, Angheben, Andrea, Bisoffi, Zeno, Bonafini, Stefania, Buonfrate, Dora, Cimino, Rubén Oscar, Gobbo, Maria, Krolewiecki, Alejandro Javier, Mejia, Rojelio, Muñoz, José, Nutman, Thomas B., Requena-Mendez, Ana, Sequi, Marco   +12 more
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Diagnostic testing for cointegration [PDF]

Journal of Econometrics, 2008
We develop a sequence of tests for specifying the cointegrating rank of, possibly fractional, multiple time series. Memory parameters of observables are treated as unknown, as are those of possible cointegrating errors. The individual test statistics have standard null asymptotics and are related to Hausman specification test statistics: when the ...
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Efficacy of Nucleic Acid Extraction by Manual versus Automated Magnetic Bead-based Method to Detect SARS-CoV-2 [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: In December 2019, a rapid spread of highly infectious, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was reported in Wuhan, China.
Rakhi Bhargav, Nisha Chaudhary, Sugandh Rathore, Bitesh Kumar, Pradhumn Katara, Hariom Sharan   +5 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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Diagnostic accuracy of tests to detect hepatitis B surface antigen: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is characterised by the persistence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). Expanding HBV diagnosis and treatment programmes into low resource settings will require high quality but inexpensive rapid ...
Ali Amini, Olivia Varsaneux, Helen Kelly, Weiming Tang, Wen Chen, Debrah I. Boeras, Jane Falconer, Joseph D. Tucker, Roger Chou, Azumi Ishizaki, Philippa Easterbrook, Rosanna W. Peeling   +11 more
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Increased use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests improves targeting of anti-malarial treatment in rural Tanzania: implications for nationwide rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests. [PDF]

, 2012
: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of all malaria cases. Tanzania is implementing a phased rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for routine use in all levels of care as one strategy to increase
Baraka Amuri, CIR Chandler, D Bell, D Payne, D Zurovac, Dan Kajungu, DS Ishengoma, HA Williams, IM Masanja, Irene M Masanja, J Faucher, Jacek Skarbinski, L Gilson, LJ Manham, Majige Selemani, Rashid Khatib, S Patrick Kachur, SA Harvey, TJ O’Dempsey, United Republic of Tanzania. Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, V D’Acremont, W Rennie, World Health Organization   +22 more
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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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Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020
During the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, design, development, validation, verification and implementation of diagnostic tests were actively addressed by a large number of diagnostic test manufacturers.
O. Vandenberg, D. Martiny, Olivier Rochas, A. van Belkum, Z. Kozlakidis   +4 more
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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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