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High-throughput Plasmodium falciparum hrp2 and hrp3 gene deletion typing by digital PCR to monitor malaria rapid diagnostic test efficacy

eLife, 2022
Most rapid diagnostic tests for Plasmodium falciparum malaria target the Histidine-Rich Proteins 2 and 3 (HRP2 and HRP3). Deletions of the hrp2 and hrp3 genes result in false-negative tests and are a threat for malaria control.
Claudia A Vera-Arias, Aurel Holzschuh, Colins O Oduma, Kingsley Badu, Mutala Abdul-Hakim, Joshua Yukich, Manuel W Hetzel, Bakar S Fakih, Abdullah Ali, Marcelo U Ferreira, Simone Ladeia-Andrade, Fabián E Sáenz, Yaw Afrane, Endalew Zemene, Delenasaw Yewhalaw, James W Kazura, Guiyun Yan, Cristian Koepfli   +17 more
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Reactome - a knowledgebase of human biological pathways [PDF]

, 2007
Pathway curation is a powerful tool for systematically associating gene products with functions. Reactome (www.reactome.org) is a manually curated human pathway knowledgebase describing a wide range of biological processes in a computationally accessible
Bernard de Bono, Bijay Jassal, David Croft, Esther Schmidt, Ewan Birney, Gopal Gopinath, Guanming Wu, Imre Vastrik, Lincoln Stein, Lisa Matthews, Marc Gillespie, Peter D', Suzanna Lewis   +12 more
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Different serological cross-reactivity of Trypanosoma rangeli forms in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients sera [PDF]

, 2008
Background American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi which currently infects approximately 16 million people in the Americas causing high morbidity and mortality.
de Moraes, Milene H., Egera, Iriane, Girardia, Fabiana P., Grisard, Edmundo C., Guarneria, Alessandra A., Rodriguesa, Juliana B., Steindel, Mario, Tyler, Kevin M.   +7 more
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False positivity of non-targeted infections in malaria rapid diagnostic tests: the case of human african trypanosomiasis. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BACKGROUND: In endemic settings, diagnosis of malaria increasingly relies on the use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). False positivity of such RDTs is poorly documented, although it is especially relevant in those infections that resemble malaria, such ...
Philippe Gillet, Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi, Albert Lukuka, Viktor Kande, Benjamin Atua, Johan van Griensven, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Jan Jacobs, Veerle Lejon   +8 more
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Perfectionism and performance in a new basketball training task: Does striving for perfection enhance or undermine performance? [PDF]

, 2008
Objectives: In the psychology of sport and exercise, the question of how perfectionism affects performance is highly debated. While some researchers have identified perfectionism as a hallmark quality of elite athletes, others see perfectionism as a ...
Aiken, Andreas Lau, Anshel, Besser, Bieling, Cohen, Conroy, Covington, Craft, Duda, Dunkley, Dunn, Dunn, Dunn, Elliot, Enns, Flett, Flett, Flett, Frost, Frost, Frost, Frost, Gould, Gould, Haase, Hall, Hall, Hanin, Hewitt, Joachim Stoeber, Koivula, Martin, Oliver Stoll, Ommundsen, Ommundsen, Rice, Runyon, Stoeber, Stoeber, Stoeber, Stoeber, Stumpf, Vallance   +43 more
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Research of the Real Time PCR method for detection and identification phytoplasmas on grapevine

RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries, 2015
For the detection and identification of Candidatus Phytoplasma vitis Flavescence doree - the yellowing grape quarantine pest for the territory of Russia and Candidatus Phytoplasma solani Bois noir - pathogen of blackening crust grape was used one of the ...
G N Matyashova, V G Zaets
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Application of fluorescein combined with methylene blue in sentinel lymph node biopsy of breast cancer

Scientific Reports, 2021
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for axillary lymph node staging in early breast cancer has been widely recognized. The combination of radio-colloids and dye method is the best method recognized. The reagents and equipment required in the process of the
Liang Li, Ning Gao, Ai Qing Yang, Wen Hao Xu, Yu Ding, Jun Chu, Xiao Na Lin, Jia Qi Liu   +7 more
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Avaliação do teste do anel em leite na vigilância epidemiológica da brucelose bovina em rebanhos e em laticínios Evaluation of the ring test in an epidemiological surveillance of bovine brucellosis in herds and dairies

Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2007
Analisaram-se 464 amostras individuais de leite e 54 amostras de leite de latões, oriundos de leite dos mesmos animais, por meio do teste do anel do leite (TAL) visando à sua aplicação no diagnóstico individual e de rebanhos da brucelose bovina.
F.F. Silva Júnior, J. Megid, C.N. Nozaki, J.P.A.N. Pinto   +3 more
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The effects of intranasal oxytocin on black participants’ responses to outgroup acceptance and rejection

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Social acceptance (vs. rejection) is assumed to have widespread positive effects on the recipient; however, ethnic/racial minorities often react negatively to social acceptance by White individuals.
Jiyoung Park, Joshua Woolley, Wendy Berry Mendes   +2 more
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Zinc Cream and Reliability of Tuberculosis Skin Testing

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
In 50 healthy Peruvian shantytown residents, zinc cream applied to tuberculosis skin-test sitescaused a 32% increase in induration compared with placebo cream.
V. Bhargavi Rao, Tom F. Pelly, Robert H. Gilman, Lilia Cabrera, Jose Delgado, Giselle Soto, Jon S. Friedland, A. Roderick Escombe, Robert E. Black, Carlton A. Evans   +9 more
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