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Elimination of False-Positive Results in a Luminex Assay for Pneumococcal Antibodies
... cause false-positive results in serological assays for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and organisms causing other infectious diseases ...ported false-positive results in a ...
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Buffer substitution in malaria rapid diagnostic tests causes false positive results
... of false positive RDT results such as the rheumatoid factor or antinuclear antibodies was ruled out [7-9] and none of the subjects had been manipulating mice during the past ten years, thereby ...
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State Newborn Screening in the Tandem Mass Spectrometry Era: More Tests, More False-Positive Results
... receive false- positive results and so might be labeled falsely as having disease, given the current number of mandated tests that are performed with tandem mass ...
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False Positive Results of Plasma PCR for Cytomegalovirus DNA due to Delayed Sample Preparation
... To assess the influence of cell-associated DNA on the rates of positive plasma PCRs, the -globin PCR results were addi- tionally analyzed (Fig. 1). Different observations were made for latently and ...
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Proposal of a magnetic resonance technique for the evaluation of the calcaneofibular ligament minimizing false positive results
... Background: Magnetic resonance (MR) techniques used to detect lesions of the ligament complex for articulation of the ankle lack the desired accuracy for the study of the calcaneofibular ligament (CFL). The lack of ...
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Parental Response to Repeat Testing of Infants with `False-Positive' Results in a Newborn Screening Program
... second interview after learning the normal results of the repeat test, both those parents informed of the initial abnormal result as well as those not informed were less.. anxious and de[r] ...
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Unusual false-positive results of whole-body 131I scintigraphy: Four different case scenarios
... SPECT-CT is regarded as an excellent diagnostic tool for rapid evaluation of unusual patterns of radioiodine biodistribution and suspected physiologic mimics, such as those att[r] ...
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Effect of endocervical specimen quality on detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and on the incidence of false positive results with the Chlamydiazyme method
... trachomatis antigen was initially detected in one or both specimens from 182 10.9% of the patients, including 165 9.8% of the specimens processed exactly as recommended by the manufactur[r] ...
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Association of Schistosomiasis with False Positive HIV Test Results in an African Adolescent Population
... HIV positive on confirmatory testing (13), giving an overall HIV prevalence of ...had false-positive ...of false-positive results, a random collection of 240 and 284 Murex ...
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Controlling the Proportion of False Positives in Multiple Dependent Tests
... high positive correlation among tests for which the null hypothesis is ...a false- measure of false discoveries because it more closely positive result at any one of these markers is likely to ...
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Key points: 1. Measuring risk metrics as the number and cost of false positive and negative results
... (percent positive agreement - PPA) and specificity (percent negative agreement – PNA) are the most common metrics utilized, followed by the positive and negative predictive value (PPV and NPV), the ...
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Impact of introducing integrated quality assessment for tuberculosis and malaria microscopy in Kano, Nigeria
... microscopy results increased from 81% at baseline to ...16.7% false positive ...microscopy results were positively associated with the ability of the laboratories to prepare and stain sputum ...
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Testing for Drugs of Abuse in Children and Adolescents
... instant positive or negative re- ...in false-positive results, which limit their speci fi ...test results are discarded, and only positive test results are run through more ...
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False-Positive Tricyclic Antidepressant Drug Screen Results Leading to the Diagnosis of Carbamazepine Intoxication
... cause false-positive tricy- clic antidepressant toxic screen results, including certain antipsychotic medications, antihistamines, and the mus- cle relaxant ...causing false-positive ...
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Comparison of Commercial Latex Agglutination and Sandwich Enzyme Immunoassays with a Competitive Binding Inhibition Enzyme Immunoassay for Detection of Antigenemia and Antigenuria in a Rabbit Model of Invasive Aspergillosis
... respectively. False-positive results for ...was positive as early as 1 day after infection, whereas the serum of only 27% of the rabbits tested by LA was ...was positive by SEIA as ...
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FALSE POSITIVE AND FALSE NEGATIVE RESULTS IN URINE DRUG SCREENING TESTS: TAMPERING METHODS AND SPECIMEN INTEGRITY TESTS
... immunosorbent assay, enzyme-multiplied immunoassay, fluorescence polarization immunoassay, immunoturbidimetic and radioimmunoassay (4). Instant on-site drug testing is another form of UDSTs that is rapid, easy to perform ...
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Longitudinal study of the influence of false-positive mammography results on psychological outcomes and subsequent screening behavior
... false-positive mammograms, some mediators (such as worry about breast cancer) will have existed prior to the occurrence of X (false-positive test result). Women may have worried about breast ...
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Clinical Evaluation of the iCubate iC GPC Assay for Detection of Gram Positive Bacteria and Resistance Markers from Positive Blood Cultures
... Within recent years, a variety of methods have been developed for the rapid identification of bacterial pathogens in positive blood culture broths. These methods include peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ ...
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Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Salmonella typhi protein antigen
... In this study, although the positive results 33.3% in the group of patients with clinically diagnosed typhoid fever was considered false-positive, this might be a true positive result be[r] ...
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Line Bot Chat Filtering using Naïve Bayes Algorithm
... There are some suggestions for future studies related to the results of this study. The usage of algorithms that can solve and detect the messages’ context in communication, such as Simple Logistic Regression and ...
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