Sentence examples for reactive screens from inspiring English sources

In this scenario, and assuming test sensitivity and specificity of 99.5% (which is likely to be at the upper end of existing platform specificity), approximately 2278 false-positive reactive screens would occur and the PPV of the screening test would be 17%.

It is not yet known whether an algorithm using two antibody EIAs with different antigen or binding properties in series could be used in pregnant women with a reactive screening result or whether both EIAs would have concurrent non-specific reactivity in uninfected persons [13].

Part of the problem is that Mr. Bana, quick-witted and good-looking though he is, is an essentially passive, reactive screen presence.

What's the point of a smartphone having a secondary, less colourful, less reactive screen if it has a perfectly good HD AMOLED pane winking at you from its shiny front?

Furthermore, we found evidence that reactive screening test results are being returned to patients prior to gonorrhoea infection being confirmed.

Given that many reactive screening tests for gonorrhoea will be false positives due to low prevalence, this finding raises considerable concerns.

Fourteen out of 26 discordant sera in syphilis screening in UK (reactive screening EIA and negative TP-PA) showed either reactive FTA-ABS or INNO-LIA syphilis score [ 10].

All tick pools were also assayed with broadly reactive screening primers designed as described previously (Table 2), using the standard RT-PCR protocol described below to detect related viruses or divergent HRTV strains.

23 Reactive screening for asymptomatic and symptomatic infections can be done periodically in such hotspots 23 and cases be treated individually or the whole community provided with mass drug administration.

Whereas the traditional syphilis screening algorithm involves confirmation of reactive nontreponemal tests by treponemal tests in USA [ 2], it was recommended that a treponemal test should be used as a screening test followed by another type of treponemal test to confirm a reactive screening test in Europe [ 3, 4].

In total, 63% (26/41) of LAs reported referring patients to sexual health services on the basis of a reactive screening test, 17% (7/41) referred after confirmatory testing, 15% (6/41) did not refer patients to another service and 10% (4/41) did not know.