"detect a disease" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the action of recognizing the signs and symptoms of an illness. For example: The doctor was able to detect the patient's disease in its early stages, allowing for the most effective treatment possible.
The positive predictive value of the test (the proportion of positive tests that truly detect a disease) is likely to be 10percentt or worse.
WASHINGTON, July 17 — More than a year after President Bush unveiled a plan for coping with a pandemic flu outbreak, the federal government still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak and track its progress across the country.
This effort focuses on strengthening early warning systems in countries around the world to detect a disease before it becomes pandemic, or a drought before it becomes a famine.
We have all these imaging methods to detect a disease before it's clinically apparent.
The ability to accurately detect a disease is vital for recruiting the right people to clinical trials and for measuring how well a drug may be working.
You must detect a disease in a constellation of symptoms, no single one of which provides the answer.
If biomolecules with very low molecular weight such as biotin can be detected with high sensitivity, it is very useful to detect a disease-related biomarker with low molecular weight or a trace level concentration.
Since the priority was to detect a disease-modifying effect of riluzole, we chose to use survival as a robust and unambiguous endpoint for the primary analysis.
For example, between 2000 and 9500 cases are required to detect a disease-conferring variant with an odds ratio of 1.4, depending on the disease allele frequency (0.50 and 0.05, respectively).
The best way to prevent a local epidemic from becoming a pandemic is a robust, rapid, international public health and medical response that detects a disease early and stamps it out at its source.
This case illustrates the difficulties in detecting a disease that has been absent for a long period of time.
