Comparison of Different Diagnostic Methods of Helicobacter pylori in Dyspeptic Patients of a Tertiary Care Hospital of Uttarakhand, India [PDF]
Introduction: Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) infection is very common worldwide. A reliable diagnosis is crucial for better treatment of the patients.
Shiwani Sharma +5 more
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Setting up a new gold standard: automated temperature-controlled hERG test on Patchliner®
In the present study, the Patchliner® temperature-controlled automated patch clamp system was evaluated for testing actions of drugs on K+ currents through hERG channels expressed in CHO cells at 35-37°C.
Liudmila ePolonchuk
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Human papillomavirus testing as a cytology gold standard: comparing Surinam with the Netherlands [PDF]
Polymerase chain reaction to detect high-risk human papillomavirus has been suggested as a gold standard for cytology. The Netherlands and Surinam were prospectively compared in regard to the proportions of Negative, Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance, and Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion smears that had detectable high-risk human ...
Wachtel, MS +3 more
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Multiple testing correction in linear mixed models. [PDF]
BackgroundMultiple hypothesis testing is a major issue in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which often analyze millions of markers. The permutation test is considered to be the gold standard in multiple testing correction as it accurately takes ...
Eskin, Eleazar +3 more
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A Molecular Lateral Flow Assay for SARS-CoV-2 Quantitative Detection
Since the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, several COVID-19 detection methods, both commercially available and in the lab, have been developed using different biomolecules as analytes and different detection and sampling methods with high analytical ...
Panagiotis Maglaras +4 more
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Objective: To assess the performance of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of tuberculosis mastitis. Materials and Methods: Diagnostic test performance evaluation using two methods—as compared to an alloyed gold standard as well as ...
Meherbano M Kamal +3 more
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Leptospirosis presenting with acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia, and hyperbilirubinemia
Leptospirosis is a spirochaetal zoonotic disease associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic to multi-organ failure and death. Acute liver and renal involvement in severe forms of leptospirosis is known as Weil’s disease.
Esravila Ariya Wibisono, Yuscha Anindya
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Urinary ATP and visualization of intracellular bacteria: a superior diagnostic marker for recurrent UTI in renal transplant recipients? [PDF]
Renal transplant recipients (RTR) are highly susceptible to urinary tract infections (UTIs) with over 50% of patients having at least one UTI within the first year.
Alberto Contreras-Sanz +12 more
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Semiparametric Estimation of the Covariate-Specific ROC Curve in Presence of Ignorable Verification Bias [PDF]
Covariate-specific ROC curves are often used to evaluate the classification accuracy of a medical diagnostic test or a biomarker, when the accuracy of the test is associated with certain covariates. In many large-scale screening tests, the gold standard
Liu, Danping, Zhou, Xiao-Hua
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In managing contact dermatitis, identification of the causative agent is essential to prevent recurrent complaints. Patch test is the gold standard to identify the causative agent.
Astri Adelia +3 more
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