Leprosy: prevalence and factors associated with seropositivity for anti-NDO-LID antibodies in children under 15 years of age [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2019 : Background: A high prevalence of leprosy among children under 15 years of age indicates the need to implement actions to prevent new cases of the disease.
Luciane Cardoso Gomes +4 more
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A simple, sensitive and quantitative FACS-based test for SARS-CoV-2 serology in humans and animals [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Serological tests are important for understanding the physiopathology and following the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. Assays based on flow cytometry (FACS) of tissue culture cells expressing the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 have repeatedly proven to perform slightly better than the plate-based assays ELISA and CLIA (chemiluminescent immuno ...
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A hierarchical Bayesian model for estimating age-specific COVID-19 infection fatality rates in developing countries [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The COVID-19 infection fatality rate (IFR) is the proportion of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 who subsequently die. As COVID-19 disproportionately affects older individuals, age-specific IFR estimates are imperative to facilitate comparisons of the impact of COVID-19 between locations and prioritize distribution of scare resources.
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Textual analysis of clinical notes on pathology request forms to determine sensitivity and specificity of Hepatitis B and C virus infection status [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Background: It is not established whether clinical notes provided on pathology request forms are useful as decision support data when assessing Hepatitis B and C viral infection status. Objective: To determine sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of clinical notes for identifying infection status of Hepatitis B and C.
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Tus-Ter-lock immuno-PCR assays for the sensitive detection of tropomyosin-specific IgE antibodies [PDF]
Bioanalysis, 2014, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 465-476, 2016 Background: The increasing prevalence of food allergies requires development of specific and sensitive tests capable of identifying the allergen responsible for the disease. The development of serologic tests that can detect specific IgE antibodies to allergenic proteins would therefore be highly received.
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Evaluation of nine serological rapid tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020 Objective. To evaluate the operative capacity of nine serological rapid tests to detect the IgM/IgG antibodies response in serum from patients with SARS-CoV-2 in different clinical stages. Methods.
Marcela Mercado +16 more
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A CASE OF LYME DISEASE (LYME BORRELIOSIS) [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2006 While an important infectious disease in the United States and Eurasia, Lyme disease is rare in Iran. We present a 9-year old boy admitted in Children’s Medical Center in December 2001 with final diagnosis of Lyme disease.
P. Tabatabaie A. Siadati
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Infectious Disease Tutorial For First- and Second-Year Medical Students (Out of Print)
MedEdPORTAL, 2007 This online tutorial is designed to help first- and second-year medical students learn basic aspects of clinical microbiology. It includes material on microbial identification, culture techniques, and serological measurements.
Mark Braun
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Estimation of Covid-19 Prevalence from Serology Tests: A Partial Identification Approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We propose a partial identification method for estimating disease prevalence from serology studies. Our data are results from antibody tests in some population sample, where the test parameters, such as the true/false positive rates, are unknown. Our method scans the entire parameter space, and rejects parameter values using the joint data density as ...
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Serologic diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori in chidren and its utility – a prospective study [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2020 Introduction. Helicobacter pylori, an ubiquitary spread bacterium, is one of the main ethiologic factors of gastritis and peptic ulcer in children. Several diagnostic methods of this infection have been developed, both invasive and noninvasive, with the ...
Maria Oana Sasaran +3 more
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