Positive rate and true sero-prevalence
Combining Biomarkers by Maximizing the True Positive Rate for a Fixed False Positive Rate
... Keywords: Biomarker; Combination; Sensitivity; True positive rate. 1 Introduction As the number of available biomarkers has grown, so has the interest in combining them for the purposes of diagnosis, ...
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Prevalence of Oral Candida Albicans Infection in HIV Sero-Positive Patients in Abakaliki
... HIV sero-positive males(64) and females(176) at the two ...HIV sero-negative persons were also ...subjects(HIV sero-positive patients) examined for oral candidiasis, the carriage ...
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Sero-prevalence of Herpes Simplex and Epstein Barr Viruses in HIV positive patients in Tehran
... that prevalence of EBV-HSV-1 coinfections were higher than the other combinations of the viruses among HIV- infected patients ...high prevalence of both viruses in the general population of the ...
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Sero prevalence of hepatitis B and C viral infections in Ghanaian HIV positive cohort: a consideration for their health care
... The hospitals were the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) which is the referral and teaching hospital in the Central Region, Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital (CCMH) both located in Cape Coast Metropolis and Saltpond ...
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The Study of Prevalence of Dengue Sero Type in Madurai by Molecular Methods.
... etc.,) can be distinguished by serological methods. Infection in humans by one serotype produces life-long immunity against reinfection by that same serotype, but only temporary and partial protection against the other ...
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Sero Prevalence of Toxoplasmosis in Domestic Animals in Benadir Region, Somalia
... (24/151) of studied animals showed sero-positive. The sero-prevalence was found in 6.3% of 64 camels, 7.1% of 28 cattle, 34.5% of 29 sheep and 26.7% of 30 goats. The antibody titres to T. ...
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Hepatitis B virus sero prevalence amongst pregnant women in the Gambia
... are positive for hepatitis B infection and this is more common among children born to mothers with high viral load ...HBV positive have a higher rate of having infants who are HBV positive and ...
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Sero Prevalence of HBV, HCV and HEV among the Egyptian Pregnant Females
... HBs-Ag sero-prevalence in the pregnant women included in this study was 7 cases ...IgM positive and 48 cases ...the prevalence of different hepa- titis viruses in the country, hepatitis viral ...
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Sero Prevalence Study of Camel Trypanosomiasis in Selected Villages of Galkayo, Somalia
... estimate sero-prevalence of camel trypanosomiasis and to investigate the related risk factors of the disease in Four Selected Villages of Galkayo, Mudug region from 14 th March 2016 up to 20 th April ...the ...
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Sero Prevalence of Food allergy among Sudanese Patients in Khartoum state
... Results: Out of 300 Patients tested for food allergy 125 positive (have food allergy) and 175negative (have no food allergy).Food allergy is more common among children 75(24.3%) than in adults 52(17.3%). The most ...
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Review on Brucellosis Sero-prevalence and Ecology in Livestock and Human Population of Ethiopia
... tested positive using Brucella Ig M /Ig G Lateral Flow ...the prevalence of major causative agents of acute febrile illness in 653 outpatients of four health centers in Northern ...
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Sero-prevalence of HBV and associated risk factors among HIV positive individuals attending ART clinic at Mekelle hospital, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
... Ethical consideration This research project was approved and ethically cleared by Ethical Review committee of College of Health Sci- ence, Mekelle University and letter of cooperation was written to the institutional ...
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Test Positive True Positive False Positive. Test Negative False Negative True Negative. Figure 5-1: 2 x 2 Contingency Table
... The null hypothesis for the chi-square test is that there is no difference in test results between patients with and without the disease. Thus, if the critical value of chi-square is less than 3.84, we would accept the ...
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Sero prevalence and exposure rates of humans to Echinococcus granulosus infection in southern Libya
... These sero-prevalence rates are not as high as those reported from other countries in the Mediterranean basin like Greece where a seroprevalence rate of 29% has been reported in humans (Sotikari, et ...
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Oral Lesions in HIV Sero positive pediatric patients and isolation and speciation of Oral Candida
... Lymphadenopathy 100%, otitis media 97%, pneumonia 50%, candidiasis 68%, lymphoid interstitial pneumonia 50%, recurrent herpetic eruptions 50%, recurrent bacterial infection 97%, kaposis sarcoma in 2 cases. Birnbaum W, ...
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Anal Cancer in a HIV Sero Positive Bisexual Bachelor—A Case Report and Literature Review
... Physical examination showed a chronically ill-looking, cachexic, febrile young man in painful distress. He was conscious, alert and well-oriented. He had severe pallor but was anicteric and dehydrated. Oral thrush was ...
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Temporal fluctuations in the sero prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in pigs in Mbeya Region, Tanzania
... the true situation since they are reported on household level and not on pig level, and many farmers will not practise one production system exclusively at any one ...
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Syphilis among people with HIV infection in southern Ethiopia: sero prevalence and risk factors
... of rate of infec- tion. Moreover, positive results with non-treponemal and treponemal tests may not necessarily indicate disease ac- tivity as there is possibilities for false-positive ...
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Sero prevalence of hiv infection among known tuberculosis patients in khartoum State–Sudan
... Washing buffer was prepared 1:20 from buffer concentrate with distilled water. Set the strips needed in strip-holder and number sufficient number of wells including three Negative control, three positive control ...
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Sero-prevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections among Blood Donors in Khartoum Central Sudan
... lower rate of seroprevalence of TTI in our study when compared with the other studies may be due to the different magnitude of risk factors that contrasting transfusion transmitted infections and may be also ...
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