Rapid diagnostic tests potentially present a quick, easy-to-use solution for improved malaria diagnosis. But are they the way to go?
Iranian scientists have found that a rapid diagnostic test for visceral leishmaniasis can discriminate between different forms of the disease.
... of current fever management in young infants, Bachur and colleagues have sought a rapid diagnostic test that will determine which children have serious infections at the first visit to the ED. "We ...
Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for malaria infection can provide valuable support for healthcare in low and mid-income ...
Scientists have shown that rapid diagnostic tests for malaria infection can provide valuable support for health care in low and mid-income countries in the fight against the disease. The RDT procedure ...
... ,048 adults, or 8.9 percent, tested positive for influenza A, with 90, or 95.7 ... institutions have developed a number of multiplex, rapid, diagnostic tests for respiratory viruses and pneumonia agents ...
... improve access to high quality rapid diagnostic tests for pandemic influenza. AMP members ... During week one of the outbreak, those laboratories had an aggregate test capacity approaching 2,500 specimens ...
... said.
"To date, our laboratory has developed and transferred to Pathology Queensland more than 70 rapid diagnostic tests targeting a range of infectious diseases.
"Therefore it was up to us to make ...
... have developed the first new technique for diagnosing malaria able to challenge the rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) currently used in the field. Early results, now published in the Biophysical Journal, ...
... malarial transmission rates in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the availability of rapid diagnostic tests mean that it is time for the policy of presumptive treatment to change. That the proportion ...
... 28, 2008, and February 19, 2009, were tested as part of ongoing surveillance.
During the 2007- ... development of new antiviral drugs and rapid diagnostic tests that determine viral subtype or resistance ...
... of HIV status," Dr. Dheda added. "Implementation of infection control measures and rapid diagnostic testing for all healthcare workers suspected of TB needs to be undertaken urgently to minimize the ...
... dose combinations, withhold support for ineffective combinations, and support wider adoption of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). The authors demonstrate how generic competition has reduced the price of ...
