2. Progress in Diagnostic Tests for Osteoporoses

Recent Progress in the Development of Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

The impact of malaria on global health has continually prompted the need to develop effective diagnostic strategies. In malaria endemic regions, routine diagnosis is hampered by technical and infrastructural challenges to laboratories. These laboratories lack standard facilities, expertise or diagnostic supplies; thus, therapy is administered based on clinical or self-diagnosis. There is the ne...

Understanding diagnostic tests. Part 2.

1. Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research–MECOR–program, American Thoracic Society/Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (CA) USA. 3. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São...

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part 2: positive and negative predictive values of diagnostic tests

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Diagnostic tests for chancroid.

Background The identification of the causative agent of chancroid, Haemophilus ducreyi, was first reported in 1889 by August Ducrey, as a short streptobacillary rod with rounded ends, following experiments in which he autoinoculated patients’ forearms with pus from their genital ulcers. Bezancon et al subsequently inoculated the forearms of human volunteers with culture purified organisms and p...