Sentence examples for clinical specificity from inspiring English sources

> The single-antigen beads assay used for detection of the donor-specific anti-DQ7 has a very high sensitivity but a correspondingly lower clinical specificity, and donor-specific antibodies undetectable in flow cytometric crossmatching are usually regarded as less important in clinical risk assessment.

Allergen specific immunological changes have occasionally been reported but so have non-specific changes and few studies have examined clinical specificity.

Although the Hybrid Capture 2 test used in our study and the GP5+/6+ polymerase chain reaction method used in the POBASCAM study are both clinically validated and have similar performances, the slight difference in clinical specificity between the two tests might partly explain the difference.

For all Irving's attempts at clinical specificity — "I just knew that Sue Atkins had Pneumocystis pneumonia, so she was probably taking Bactrim" — a reader can't quite lose the sense that he has come to this portion of his subject not as an old combatant but as a student.

The detection limit was 8.6 pg/L and the clinical specificity was 94.44% compared with real time-PCR (RT-PCR).

The clinical sensitivity of these devices in saliva can be relatively poor at 16 75 % although clinical specificity can be close to 100%[12]2].

Previous data has shown that the real-time NASBA assay has higher clinical specificity than HPV DNA testing (97.1% vs. 53.7%).

The clinical specificity of the PCR assay was evaluated on 147 blood samples from dogs and 128 tick specimens (Dermacentor reticulatus and Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato).

It is possible to tailor patient medical care through the combination of individual genomic studies, phenotypic histomorphological features, and patient clinical specificities [ 3].

An alternative role would imply tagging a subgroup of patients responsive to any antipsychotic, whatever their affinity, meaning that the association is more depending on non pharmacological charaterictics, such as clinical specificities.

Accordingly, careful consideration to the clinical specificities of the sample may help disentangling the exact role of a candidate gene regarding vulnerability/resistance to a disease or its response to treatment.