It was further confounded by the technical limitation that whole-mount sensitivity is typically lower than that achieved using immunohistochemistry (Couffinhal et al., 1997; Pereira et al., 2006) or RNA hybridisation techniques.
Samples for microbiologic evaluation were collected from the aqueous humor or vitreous humor just before intravitreal administration of antibiotics or during vitrectomy and were sent to the laboratory for microscopy for Gram staining, potassium hydroxide mount, culture, and sensitivity.
A second limitation is that the diagnosis of trichomoniasis by wet mount has limited sensitivity as it relies on visualization of motile protozoa.
The presence of vaginal neutrophils diagnosed by saline wet mount had a high sensitivity (90.9%) and negative predictive value (94.5%), but a low specificity (26.3%) and positive predictive value (17.1%) for the diagnosis of upper genital tract infection.
The sensitivity reflects mounting public concern over the dangers posed by the multiple "bomblets" contained in cluster bombs.
One feature of Kv7 channels is the absolute requirement of PIP2 binding to be functional and mounting evidence reveals that sensitivity to PIP2 is modulated by CaM binding30,31.
The NIR images taken by the demo camera equip with a C-mount lens show 75% sensitivity enhancement in the λ = 700 1200 nm wavelength range with negligible spatial resolution degradation.
However, the mounting evidence of low sensitivity of smear microscopy [6] and the high mortality, loss to follow-up and rate at which clinical deterioration occurs during diagnostic work up of HIV-positive smear negative TB suspects [7], [8] prompted a recent change in international management guidelines.
The sensitivity of wet mount examination was 33.3%, specificity was 100%, similarly, the sensitivity of Giemsa stain was 33.3% and its specificity was 100%.
While culture has better sensitivity that wet mount, in women it is more expensive, time consuming, and also demonstrates poor sensitivity in men.
As found by numerous other studies such as Schewbke et al., molecular testing has greater sensitivity than wet mount for clinically relevant Trichomonas vaginalis detection [ 18].
