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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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Empathy predicts false belief reasoning ability: Evidence from the N400 [PDF]

, 2014
Interpreting others’ actions relies on an understanding of their current mental state. Emerging research has begun to identify a number of factors that give rise to individual differences in this ability.
Cane, JE, Douchkov, Michelle, Wright, D, Ferguson, Heather J., Douchkov, M, Ferguson, H., Wright, Daniel, Wright, D., Cane, J., Ferguson, HJ, Cane, James E., Douchkov, M.   +11 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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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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Familiarity breeds distortion: the effects of media exposure on false reports concerning media coverage of the terrorist attacks in London on 7 July 2005 [PDF]

, 2008
The present experiment investigated whether increased media exposure could lead to an increase in memory distortions regarding a traumatic public event: the explosion of the No. 30 bus in Tavistock Square, London on 7 July 2005.
Julie Udell, Udell, J, Emma Roos af Hjelmsäter, Granhag, P., Roos Af Hjelmsäter, Emma,, Roos af Hjelmsater, E., James Ost, Udell, Julie, Pär-Anders Granhag, Ost, James, Ost, J, Granhag, Pär-Anders,   +11 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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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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Contrastive sentence representation learning with adaptive false negative cancellation [PDF]

Contrastive sentence representation learning has made great progress thanks to a range of text augmentation strategies and hard negative sampling techniques.
Lingling Xu, Fu Lee Wang, Xu, Lingling, Li, Qing, Weiming Wang, Tao, Xiaohui, Wang, Weiming, Xiaohui Tao, Xie, Haoran, Haoran Xie, Qing Li, Wang, Fu Lee   +11 more
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False-negative cases on short-axis view papillary muscle level images.

, 2022
False-negative cases on short-axis view papillary muscle level images.
Atsushi Teramoto (6338672), Ryosuke Muraki (12152308), Akira Yamada (509460), Eiichi Watanabe (790904), Kunihiko Sugimoto (12152311), Keiko Sugimoto (129038)   +5 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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