Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and direct or indirect MRA are used extensively to diagnose intraarticular hip joint pathology.
After the success of this initial diagnosis, exome sequencing has been used extensively to diagnose novel diseases and find novel causative mutations for known disease phenotypes.
The VDS algorithm is used extensively to diagnose cervical infections in antenatal care in Botswana [ 24], but our results show that this management is no better than random treatment.
Despite this my condition did not improve, and after about five months of treatment, first for "normal" TB and then for multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), I was finally diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), the deadliest form of the disease.
Both had just been diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), a form of TB that has a five year-survival rate of only 20%.
This region of differentiation, RD1, encodes CFP-10 and ESAT-6, which induce IFNγ production in mononuclear cells or whole blood cultures of infected individuals, thus IFNγ release assays (IGRAs) have been extensively used to diagnose latent TB infection (LTBI) [10].
40, 41 Microscopy and RDTs are extensively used to diagnose malaria at health facilities.
Over the years, DNA testing of the D4Z4 locus and flanking polymorphisms has been considered highly sensitive and specific and extensively used to diagnose FSHD (Tawil et al., 2010).
The osteo-articular status of the mares was not extensively ascertained, but none was diagnosed as OC-affected based on clinical examination.
Specificity is increased to 0.9 if patients with red flag symptoms such as anemia, weight loss, and rectal bleeding (present in just 3% of patients) 11 are more extensively investigated and IBS is diagnosed by exclusion.
