The phrase "a dipstick for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a tool or method for measuring or assessing something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new survey serves as a dipstick for gauging employee satisfaction within the company."
Alternatives: "a measure of" or "an indicator of".
It uses a convective PCR for rapid amplification, a dipstick for visual detection of PCR products, and a simple commercial kit for nucleic acid extraction.
"Mesothelin has been looked at before but the innovation was to develop the test as a dipstick for urine... "The excitement is in using new technology to bind an antibody to a dipstick and then use it like a pregnancy test".
A dipstick for diagnosis of malaria (CORE Diagnostics, Birmingham, UK) was used if fever (axillary temperature of ≥37.5°C) or a history of fever within the previous 48 hours was present.
For example Boonyod and colleagues [ 7] demonstrated that a rapid diagnostic test using a dipstick for the outer membrane protein (OMP) LipL32, which is expressed in pathogenic leptospira, had good sensitivity and specificity to MAT (100% and 98.3% respectively).
This is why we have introduced a new protocol at the Can Gio District Hospital requesting a dipstick for each child presenting with fever and without any evidence of an infection focus; if leukocyturia and/or nitrituria is found, a urinary culture should be performed to search for bacteria.
When a recent serum creatinine value is not available, a simple questionnaire (e.g., the Choyke questionnaire) [ 87] or a dipstick testing for urine protein may be useful for identifying preexisting kidney disease.
The objective of the study was to develop and evaluate a dipstick test for the rapid diagnosis of S. flexneri 2a infection using stool samples at the bedside of the patient.
The samples were then analyzed using a dipstick test for proteinuria and ketonuria (Bayer Multistix GP diagnostic strips; MediSupplies, Dorset, UK).
Urine measurements included a dipstick test for albumin and measurement of red blood cell (RBC) counts per high-power field by light microscopy.
A pertinent example of this is the case of a dipstick test for urinary schistosomiasis (the second most prevalent parasitic disease after malaria), which was developed by researchers at Noguchi.
Parallel oligonucleotides were immobilized on a dipstick strip for multiplex analysis of target DNA sequences of the caries-associated bacteria, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sobrinus, Scardovia wiggsiae, Actinomyces species, and Veillonella parvula.
