Comparing Diagnostic Coding and Laboratory Results

Comparing Diagnostic Coding and Laboratory Results

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2005 1151 species. However, the new spirochete is distinct from all other known Borrelia spp. with an available 16S rDNA sequence in the GenBank database. Its partial 16S rDNA sequence differed by 3.3% to 4.2% from 9 LB group species and 2.4% to 3.4% from 15 relapsing fever group species. For comparison, intragroup sequence d...

Laboratory diagnostic methods of malaria infection

Malaria is one of the most important tropical infectious diseases. The incidence of malaria worldwide is estimated to be 300–500 million clinical cases each year with a mortality of between one and three million people worldwide annually. The accurate and timely diagnosis of malaria infection is essential if severe complications and mortality are to be reduced by early specific antimalarial tre...

Laboratory of neural coding

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Comparing diagnostic tests and biomarkers: trials in people with discordant test results

Objectives Diagnostic tests are traditionally compared for accuracy against a gold standard, but there is growing interest in tests (or biomarkers) used to guide treatment choices rather than specifically to diagnose. The question of whether health outcomes are better using one test or another in the same population can be answered with a randomised trial. It has been suggested that an efficien...