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Prospective Study of a Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Acute Kidney Injury in a South Asian Hospital

Kidney International Reports
Introduction: Serum creatinine (SCr) is used to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI) but has limited utility to distinguish volume depletion from tubular injury.
Tejashree S. Gopal, Katherine Xu, Yechiel Muller, Jai Radhakrishnan, Vivekanandan Pillai, Jonathan Barasch, Sreejith Parameswaran, Catherine S. Forster   +7 more
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Reliability of dipstick assay in predicting urinary tract infection

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015
Aims: Urine dipstick analysis is a quick, cheap and a useful test in predicting Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in hospitalized patients. Our aim is to evaluate the reliability (sensitivity) of urine dipstick analysis against urine culture in the diagnosis
Anith Kumar Mambatta, Jayalakshmi Jayarajan, Vinitha L Rashme, Sanchitha Harini, Sujaya Menon, Jayachandran Kuppusamy   +5 more
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Development of a new dipstick (Cholkit) for rapid detection of Vibrio cholerae O1 in acute watery diarrheal stools

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
Recognizing cholera cases early, especially in the initial phase of an outbreak and in areas where cholera has not previously circulated, is a high public health priority. Laboratory capacity in such settings is often limited.
Md. Abu Sayeed, K. Islam, Motaher Hossain, N. Akter, M. Alam, N. Sultana, F. Khanam, Meagan Kelly, R. Charles, P. Kováč, Peng Xu, J. Andrews, S. Calderwood, J. Amin, E. Ryan, F. Qadri   +15 more
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Evaluation of rK39 rapid diagnostic tests for canine visceral leishmaniasis : longitudinal study and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Canine visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by the intracellular parasite Leishmania infantum. It is an important veterinary disease, and dogs are also the main animal reservoir for human infection.
A Boarino, A Rhalem, A Scalone, AC Rosypal, Albert Picado, C Carson, C Carson, C Noli, Connor Carson, D Otranto, D Otranto, EM Lemos, EY do Rosario, F Chappuis, F Dapra, G Grimaldi Jr, GAS Romero, H Hajjaran, HDFH Schallig, HT Chu, I Cruz, J-Y Wang, JM Burns, JML dos Santos, L Solano-Gallego, LCC Malaquias, LD Brown, Lourdes M. Garcez, LR Guan, M Boelaert, M Maroli, M Mettler, M Mohebali, M Mohebali, MD Braga, MGPA Ferreira, N Dogan, O Courtenay, O Francino, Orin Courtenay, R Badaro, R Porrozzi, R Reithinger, Richard Reithinger, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RT da Costa, Rupert J. Quinnell, S Habibzadeh, S Kalayou, S Rosati, SO Toz, VMF de Lima   +53 more
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Evaluation of a urine dipstick test for confirmation or exclusion of proteinuria in dogs [PDF]

, 2010
Andrea Zatelli, Saverio Paltrinieri, Francesca Nizi, Xavier Roura, Eric Zini   +4 more
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Accuracy of dipstick urinalysis as a screening method for detection of glucose, protein, nitrites and blood [PDF]

, 2009
This study determined the reliability of dipstick urinalysis for detection of protein, glucose, blood and nitrites in non-random urine samples from 300 people aged > 50 years attending a health centre for check-up.
Zamanzad, Behnam.
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Heated Dipstick

, 2017
Starting an engine in low temperatures creates unnecessary wear on components due to the insufficient lubrication of cold engine oil. A cold engine produces more emissions and consumes more fuel. Not all cars are equipped with engine heaters and installing an aftermarket heater is both expensive and time consuming.
Wattle Björk, Sebastian, Ali, Omar
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Evaluation of a New Recombinant K39 Rapid Diagnostic Test for Sudanese Visceral Leishmaniasis. [PDF]

, 2006
A new rK39 rapid diagnostic dipstick test (DiaMed-IT-Leish) was compared with aspiration and a direct agglutination test (DAT) for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in 201 parasitologically confirmed cases, 133 endemic controls, and in 356 ...
Davidson, R N, Kipngetich, S, Melaku, Y, Mueller, M, O'keeffe, C, Ritmeijer, K   +5 more
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its associated risk factors: The first report from Iran using both microalbuminuria and urine sediment [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The incidence of major risk factors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the world is on the rise, and it is expected that this incidence and prevalence, particularly in developing countries, will continue to increase.
Alatab, S., Broumand, B., Hakemi, M., Hosseini, M., Islami, F., Larijani, B., Malekzadeh, F., Malekzadeh, R., Najafi, I., Nobakht-Haghighi, A., Rahmati, A., Salahi, R., Shakeri, R., Yapan-Gharavi, M.   +13 more
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Erratum: Adaptation of a simple dipstick test for detection of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 in environmental water.

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013
Subhra eChakraborty, Munirul eAlam, Heather M. Scobie, David Allen Sack   +3 more
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