Sensitivity and Specificity of a Urine Circulating Anodic Antigen Test for the Diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium in Low Endemic Settings. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BACKGROUND:Elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem and interruption of transmission in selected areas are key goals of the World Health Organization for 2025.
Stefanie Knopp +10 more
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Reliability of Reagent Strips for Semi-quantitative Measurement of Glucosuria in a Neonatal Intensive Care Setting [PDF]
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2014 Glucosuria in preterm infants is often measured using a visually readable reagent strip, e.g., when monitoring total parenteral nutrition or during sepsis or when treating with corticosteroids.
Jolita Bekhof +4 more
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Role of urine reagent strips in early diagnosis of meningitis [PDF]
Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences UniversityBackground: Early diagnosis of meningitis is critical to reducing associated morbidity and mortality, especially in resource-limited settings. Conventional Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) analysis is accurate but time-consuming.
Preeti Singh +3 more
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All that is blood is not schistosomiasis: experiences with reagent strip testing for urogenital schistosomiasis with special consideration to very-low prevalence settings [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Reagent strip testing for microhaematuria has long been used for community diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium. Sensitivities and specificities are reasonable, and hence, microhaematuria can serve as a proxy for S.
Stefanie J. Krauth +9 more
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Annals of Hepatology, 2012 Background and aim. Bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the most frequent infection in patients with cirrhosis causing significant mortality. Delay in SBP diagnosis is a serious problem.
Félix I. Téllez-Ávila +4 more
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Evaluation of Directions for Use Compatibility Between Different Brands Strips Urine Reagent [PDF]
Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar - ReBraM /Brazilian Multidisciplinay Journal, 2012 Through the urine test we can measure kidney function and identify pathologies of the urinary tract. The urine test strips are a fast, easy and increasingly used method of analysis.
Guilherme de Oliveira Cezar +2 more
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Reagent strips are efficient to rule out spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhotics
, 2016 Background: The gold standard to diagnose spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a polymorphonuclear neutrophil count >= 250 cells/mu l in ascitic fluid. This test is laborious and expensive. Urine reagent strips measuring leukocyte esterase activity
Oey, Rosalie +3 more
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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 ...
R M, Romanelli +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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Covering polygonal annuli by strips [PDF]
, 2007 In 2000 Bezdek asked which plane convex bodies have the property that whenever an annulus, consisting of the body less a sufficiently small scaled copy of itself, is covered by strips, the sum of the widths of the strips must still be at least the ...
Wisewell, L., White, S.A.
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