Screening with reagent strips.

[Diagnosis of meningitis with reagent strips]

OBJECTIVE: To determine the usefulness of reagent strips in the evaluation of pleocytosis, cerebrospinal fluid glucose and protein levels for early and rapid diagnosis of meningitis in children. METHODS: We included cerebrospinal fluid samples of 164 children admitted to the outpatient clinic of Communicable Diseases of the General Pediatric Center (Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais...

Urine Reagent Strips for Urinalysis

This Package Insert to be used with the following products: • URS-1B • URS-1G • URS-1P • URS-1K • URS-2K • URS-2P •URS-2LP • URS-3 • URS-4B • URS-4S • URS-5K • URS-5U • URS-6 • URS-6L • URS-7 • URS-8 • URS-9 • URS-10 • URS-11 For the semi-quantitative and qualitative detection of Glucose, Bilirubin, Ketone, Specific Gravity, Blood, pH, Protein, Urobilinogen, Nitrite, Leukocytes and Ascorbic Aci...

Rapid diagnosis of meningitis using reagent strips.

OBJECTIVES Identification of causative agent with estimation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glucose, protein, cells is necessary for accurate diagnosis of meningitis. Unfortunately, even these facilities are not available in many areas. Reagent strips that measure glucose and protein in blood and urine can serve this task but have been used with varying results in the past. This study was carried...

Centrifugation techniques and reagent strips in the assessment of microhaematuria.

During a survey for bladder cancer in a healthy male population a surprisingly high incidence of significant microhaematuria was found and no urinary sample was completely free of blood. A study of the sensitivity of the different techniques for assessing microhaematuria seemed necessary. A semiquantitative centrifugation technique, developed for cytological purposes, was found to be the most s...

Leukocyte esterase reagent strips for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: what now?