Rapid Diagnostic
Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in Malaria (Evaluating the Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Buffy Coat and Rapid Diagnostic Test using Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase against the Peripheral Smear Microscopy
... OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN MALARIA (EVALUATING THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF QUANTITATIVE BUFFY COAT AND RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST USING PLASMODIUM LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE AGAINST THE PERIPHERAL SMEAR ...
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Implementation of a malaria rapid diagnostic test in a rural setting of Nanoro, Burkina Faso: from expectation to reality
... malaria rapid diagnostic test detecting Plasmodium falcipa- rum-specific histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) for diagnosis malaria is based on the high sensitivity and specificity reported by the World Health ...
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Assessment of the prozone effect in malaria rapid diagnostic tests
... The use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests is expanding, both in endemic and non-endemic settings [1]. In 2007, more than 70 million RDTs have been procured [2] and in many endemic countries, RDTs are now ...
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Laboratory evaluation of four HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests
... Rapid diagnostic tests are mainly developed to be used in the field, by healthcare workers. For that reason it is im- portant that not only the performance characteristics are evaluated but also the ...
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Evaluation of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Typhoid Fever
... One limitation in the previous and current evaluations is that blood culture-confirmed cases were used as the gold stan- dard. Since blood culture is less sensitive than bone marrow culture for diagnosing typhoid fever ...
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Reliability of rapid diagnostic test for diagnosing peripheral and placental malaria in an area of unstable malaria transmission in Eastern Sudan
... faster diagnostic methods such as rapid diagnostic tests ...ideal diagnostic tool for malaria diagnosis in settings that are resource ...
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Interpreting rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for Plasmodium falciparum
... malaria diagnostic challenge common in endemic regions collaborated with manu- factures, scientists and clinicians in the development and introduction into clinical practice a rapid, easy to read and ...
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Routine parallel diagnosis of malaria using microscopy and the malaria rapid diagnostic test SD 05FK60: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières in Myanmar
... a diagnostic tool in settings where the case load is high and resources lim- ited ...called rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), are an attractive alternative as they are quick and easy to carry out ...
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Improving the Specificity of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Diagnosis in High Transmission Settings with a Two Step Rapid Diagnostic Test and Microscopy Algorithm
... impact rapid diagnostic test (RDT)-based diagnostic strategies for ...undergone diagnostic testing with a multiple-antigen (histidine-rich protein 2 and pan-lactate dehydrogenase pLDH ...
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Modelling the cost effectiveness of a rapid diagnostic test (IgMFA) for uncomplicated typhoid fever in Cambodia
... Typhoid fever is a common disease among children in Cambodia. It can be fatal or lead to chronic faecal carriage if not treated. In resource-limited settings, typhoid fever is often diagnosed and treated presumptively. ...
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Is rapid diagnostic test (malaria Pv/Pf Ag card test) reliable in diagnosing malaria
... newer rapid diagnostic test (malaria plasmodium falciparum/ plasmodium vivax antigen card) to know the diagnostic accuracy of Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) ...
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Comparison of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit and Microscopy
... Malaria is the most common single diagnosis made in many countries in Africa. Microscopy is the gold standard for laboratory diagnosis of malaria parasite, but it requires adequate training and the time to get results is ...
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Field evaluation of diagnostic performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in western Kenya
... The opposite was observed for specificity whereby the levels were higher when compared to PCR (80.8–84.8 %) than microscopy (73.3–79.3 %). The specificity of RDTs in our results is almost similar other studies [18, ...
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Test characteristics of the SD FK80 Plasmodium falciparum/Plasmodium vivax malaria rapid diagnostic test in a non endemic setting
... Antigen Rapid Test (Standard Diagnostics, Hagal-Dong, Republic of Korea), further referred to as FK80, is a three-band RDT that targets HRP-2 and ...Antigen Rapid Test will only show a unique HRP-2 line; in ...
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A systematic review of the economic impact of rapid diagnostic tests for dengue
... An economic evaluation based on cost-effectiveness modeling by Lubell et al. (2016) reported that use of a den- gue RDT is found to be not advantageous, more costly and less effective, when compared to the common ...
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Dilution testing using rapid diagnostic tests in a HIV diagnostic algorithm: a novel alternative for confirmation testing in resource limited settings
... HIV-1/HIV-2 Rapid Test. It is a single use flow-through rapid test that yields a result in 15 ...use rapid test that is being evaluated as a supplementary test but is not yet approved for this use by ...
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Rapid diagnostic tests for typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever
... Only 11 studies recruited unselected febrile patients. Most in- cluded studies selected patients on the basis of a clinical suspi- cion of enteric fever, although the criteria for suspecting enteric fever were usually ...
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Use of rapid diagnostic techniques in ICU patients with infections
... Some authors claim that a negative endotracheal aspir- ate (EA) Gram stain is of great negative predictive value for the diagnosis of VAP and may guide the decision to not initiate or to limit antibiotic treatment until ...
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Assessment of desiccants and their instructions for use in rapid diagnostic tests
... In addition to the checklist, the silica gel sachets with humidity indicator of RDTs were – as part of diagnostic accuracy studies - individually assessed for i humidity saturation as in[r] ...
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Illumination Compensation and Normalization for Automatic Recognition of Rapid Diagnostic Kits
... medical diagnostic kits makes it possible to overcome the limitation of recognition by naked eyes in the process of evaluating the color and intensity information from the diagnosing ...
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