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Portable tuberculosis test achieves 100% sensitivity and specificity in clinical samples

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...
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Improving the Sensitivity-Specificity Balance of Human Papillomavirus Testing on Self- and Clinician-Collected Samples in South Africa

Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in South Africa. Self-collected vaginal samples and clinician-collected cervical samples were tested with Xpert HPV, an assay that ...
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Sensitivity and specificity of 61 commercial disease detection products: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 80 cohorts with approximately 445,000 enrolled samples.

Effects of common nutraceutical supplements marketed for cancer prevention on tumor cell growth.
Nature

Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of Kato-Katz and circulating cathodic antigen in terms of Schistosoma japonicum using latent class analysis

This study was approved by the institutional review boards of Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, RI, USA) and the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, Manilla, The Philippines. All participants ...
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Study assesses the sensitivity, specificity of rapid antigen tests and PCR tests for Omicron variant of COVID-19

A study led by Osaka University recently found that the sensitivity of rapid antigen tests (RATs) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 when compared with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests was 0.63 ...
Nature

Comparative performance evaluation of QIAreach QuantiFERON-TB and tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in Viet Nam

Current WHO-recommended diagnostic tools for tuberculosis infection (TBI) have well-known limitations and viable alternatives are urgently needed. We compared the diagnostic performance and accuracy ...