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Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Children by Reagent Strips
Acta Medica Iranica, 2013 This study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of dipstick tests (leukocyte esterase and nitrite) in diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in cirrhotic patients. Forty six children with ascites hospitalized between 2009 and 2010 in Children
Fatemeh Farahmand +4 more
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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: Meningitis is a severe infection affecting the central nervous system requiring early management to prevent debilitating consequences and death.
Nikita Singh +3 more
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Efficacy of Ascitic Fluid Dipstick Leukocyte Esterase Activity in Early Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021 Introduction: Spontaneously occurring ascitic fluid infections {Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)} are the most common and recurring complications in patients with decompensated cirrhosis with ascitis.
SANJAY GUPTA, HEERAK SINGH
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Diagnosis of meningitis with reagent strips [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2001 OBJECTIVE: To determine the usefulness of reagent strips in the evaluation of pleocytosis, cerebrospinal fluid glucose and protein levels for early and rapid diagnosis of meningitis in children. METHODS: We included cerebrospinal fluid samples of 164 children admitted to the outpatient clinic of Communicable Diseases of the General Pediatric Center ...
Eline E. Thome +5 more
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Effect of tear fluid sampling and processing on total protein quantity and electrophoretic pattern
Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Human tears contain more than 1500 proteins that could be diagnostically relevant. To date, numerous candidates on a biomarker of protein origin were identified for ocular and systemic diseases.
Kristina Krajcikova +2 more
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Circulating antigen tests and urine reagent strips for diagnosis of active schistosomiasis in endemic areas [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Point-of-care (POC) tests for diagnosing schistosomiasis include tests based on circulating antigen detection and urine reagent strip tests.
Bossuyt, P.M.M. +8 more
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Molecules, 2022 Pigment red 53 is a synthetic dye that has been banned in cosmetic products due to the possibility of causing blood disorders and spleen sarcoma. The indicator strip employs qualitative analysis methods that are simpler, easier, and quicker than an ...
Rimadani Pratiwi +2 more
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Maternal urogenital schistosomiasis; monitoring disease morbidity by simple reagent strips. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Urine analysis is one of the recommended antenatal guidelines for early diagnosis of pregnancy-associated complications. While in practice, urine analysis by dipstick had been used to provide useful information on other urinary tract infections, its ...
Oyetunde T Oyeyemi, Alexander B Odaibo
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Prevalence of Urinary Schistosomiasis in Al-Rusafah Regions of Baghdad governarate
مجلة بغداد للعلوم, 2016 Urinary Schistosomiasis is one of important diseases that cause irritation and damage of urinary tract and other systems and tissues and can not be expected by doctors when diagnosing urinary tract diseases.The current study is conducted to investigate ...
Baghdad Science Journal
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Faecal leukocyte esterase activity is an alternative biomarker in inflammatory bowel disease [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Leukocyte cytosolic proteins (e.g., calprotectin) are emerging biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease. Leukocyte aryl esterase activity has been commonly used for sensitive detection of leukocytes in human body fluids such as urine.
De Vos, Martine +5 more
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