Maternal urogenital schistosomiasis; monitoring disease morbidity by simple reagent strips. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 BackgroundUrine 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,
Oyetunde T Oyeyemi, Alexander B Odaibo
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Performance of Urine Reagent Strips in Detecting the Presence and Estimating the Prevalence and Intensity of Schistosoma haematobium Infection [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 The performance of the urine reagent strips (URS) in detecting the presence and estimating the intensity of Schistosoma haematobium infection was evaluated using urine filtration microscopy as a reference standard.
Abraham Degarege +3 more
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Urogenital schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar: accuracy of urine filtration and haematuria reagent strips for diagnosing light intensity Schistosoma haematobium infections [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Urine filtration and microhaematuria reagent strips are basic standard diagnostic methods to detect urogenital schistosomiasis. We assessed their accuracy for the diagnosis of light intensity infections with Schistosoma haematobium as they ...
Stefanie Knopp +9 more
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Use of pH reagent strips to verify gastric tube placement in newborns [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2019 Objective: to confirm the accuracy of the pH test in identifying the placement of the gastric tube in newborns. Method: double-blind, diagnostic test study conducted with 162 newborns admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit and an intermediate care ...
Flávia de Souza Barbosa Dias +5 more
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Reagent strips test: A simplified method for prompt analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in neurological disorders in emergency [PDF]
Practical Laboratory Medicine, 2019 Introduction: The initial examination of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for proteins, glucose, and leukocytes, is still the gold standard investigation in some neurological conditions like meningitis.
Anshu Gupta, Tanima Dwivedi
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Rapid diagnosis of inflammatory synovial fluid with reagent strips [PDF]
British Journal of Rheumatology, 2002 To determine the usefulness of reagent test strips for screening inflammatory synovial fluid (SF).Consecutive patients undergoing diagnostic arthrocentesis, attending the Department of Rheumatology of a large tertiary care hospital were evaluated. All SF specimens obtained were tested using two techniques: (i) white blood cell (WBC) count with the ...
Philippe Ravaud +2 more
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Performance of Leukocyte Esterase Reagent Strips in the Detection of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Cirrhotic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 2022 Kishan P Patel +2 more
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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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