Although the dipstick tests may enhance diagnostic speed, microscopic examination remains mandatory in patients with suspected malaria, because occasionally these dipstick tests are negative in patients with high parasitemia, and their sensitivity below 100 parasites/μl is low [ 22].
Standardization and optimization of commercial ELISA tests, relative to the MIF test, may enhance the performance of the former.
This suggests that the use of tests such as maternal serum α-fetoprotein, alkaline phosphatase, and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor as a group or adding their results to fetal fibronectin test and cervical length test results may enhance our ability to predict spontaneous preterm birth and that the development of a multiple-marker test for spontaneous preterm birth is feasible.
This suggests that increasing awareness on the efficacy of a screening test may enhance uptake.
High disease awareness during the pandemic season may have enhanced testing and reporting during 2009 10; thus the reduced case number for 2010 11 should be interpreted with caution.
The results suggest that antenatal HIV counseling and testing can be scaled up to primary heath facilities and that such scaling up may enhance early uptake of testing and provision of counseling.
To explore the mechanisms by which p190B may enhance metastasis, we first tested whether exogenous p190B expression affected cell adhesion to extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins.
The remaining subtests, further enhance sensitivity, structure the test and may enhance its ability to identify MCI syndromes that convert to different dementia subtypes.
A broad set of inclusion criteria may result in the inclusion of a large number of heterogeneous trials of varying quality, but may enhance the statistical power to test significance.
The use of rapid testing for influenza may enhance the precision of the influenza diagnosis but the reduced sensitivity of these tests means that negative test results should be confirmed with RT-PCR and/or viral culture [ 18, 20].
