Search Results for: Testing
Diagnostic accuracy of tongue swab testing in persons with sputum Xpert Ultra Trace results
Tuberculosis News
Publication date: Jul 15, 2025 Background: Molecular amplification of tongue swab samples is a non-sputum-based investigational approach to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis (pTB). An improved manual qPCR method for tongue swabs ... Read more
Genetics and Melanoma: Understanding Genetic Testing and Its Role
Melanoma Media
Genetic testing for susceptibility to major depressive disorder: a review of the behavioural repercussions of disclosing test results.
Major Depressive Disorder Literature
Publication date: Aug 01, 2025 Predictive genetic testing for major depressive disorder (MDD) has become a widespread technological advancement to aid the process of early diagnosis and treatment selection. Despite ... Read more
Taking the opportunity of COVID testing to screen vulnerable populations for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, and human immunodeficiency virus in Central Brazil.
Coronavirus Literature
Publication date: Jul 11, 2025 Vulnerable populations were disproportionally affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its peak periods disrupted progress toward the control and prevention of sexually ... Read more
Performance and feasibility of self-microsampling of capillary blood and saliva for serological testing of SARS-CoV-2.
Coronavirus Literature
Publication date: Jul 11, 2025 Serology is a valuable tool to estimate infections, case-fatality rates, and immunity. However, venipuncture and clinical infrastructure hinder scalability. This study evaluated the performance, feasibility ... Read more
Genetic testing for Parkinson’s disease in Israel: Insights from the Rostock Parkinson’s Disease (ROPAD) study.
Parkinson's Disease Literature
Publication date: Jun 28, 2025 We examined the yield of a large-scale genetic testing for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Israel, where risk factor variants in GBA1 and/or the ... Read more
Tongue Swab Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra Testing for Tuberculosis Using a Revised Consensus Protocol: A multi-country diagnostic accuracy study
Tuberculosis News
Publication date: Jul 09, 2025 Background: Tongue swabs are a promising specimen for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. In a previous study using a consensus protocol, tongue swabs tested with Xpert MTB/RIF ... Read more
The influence of case factors and system factors on the timeliness of testing and contact tracing for COVID-19 in The Netherlands.
Coronavirus Literature
Publication date: Jul 08, 2025 Source and contact tracing (SCT) is essential to control the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and the timeliness of SCT is crucial. As little is known about ... Read more
Deep Learning-Enhanced Hand-Driven Spatial Encoding Microfluidics for Multiplexed Molecular Testing at Home.
Coronavirus Literature
Publication date: Jul 08, 2025 The frequent global outbreaks of viral infectious diseases have significantly heightened the urgent demand for molecular testing at home. However, the labor-intensive sample preparation and ... Read more