BACKGROUND Fourth generation assays detect simultaneously antibodies for HIV and the p24 antigen, identifying HIV infection earlier than previous generation tests. Previous studies have shown that the Alere Determine HIV-1/2 Combo has lower than anticipated performance in detecting antibodies for HIV and the p24 antigen. Furthermore, there are currently very few studies evaluating the performan...

This paper presents hardware-accelerated framework for security in high-speed networks. To match the line rate performance requirements we use FPGA based COMBO acceleration cards. The NetCOPE platform enables to design new network security applications or accelerate existing one as well as shorten the time to develop these applications for COMBO cards. The network traffic is processed in real-t...

BACKGROUND Traditional information retrieval techniques typically return excessive output when directed at large bibliographic databases. Natural Language Processing applications strive to extract salient content from the excessive data. Semantic MEDLINE, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) natural language processing application, highlights relevant information in PubMed data. However, Semant...

The Aptima Combo 2 assay is proposed as a rapid method of diagnosing Neisseria gonorrhoeae endocarditis or other suspected disseminated gonococcal disease.

RATIONALE A major goal for the treatment of heart tissue damaged by cardiac injury is to develop strategies for restoring healthy heart muscle through the regeneration and repair of damaged myocardium. We recently demonstrated that administration of a specific combination of microRNAs (miR combo) into the infarcted myocardium leads to direct in vivo reprogramming of noncardiac myocytes to cardi...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the use of children’s literature and DVD films on EFL adult language learning. A total of 89 non-English majors enrolled in two Freshman English classes participated in the study. The study employed a quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest comparison group design. The participants in the experimental group were exposed to the children’s l...

Abstract Background The incidence of typhoid fever is increasing in Egypt. Widal test the evaluation most widely used Egypt for diagnosis, but it has many drawbacks; therefore, new diagnostic tools are needed. Our aim was to evaluate accuracy onsite IgG/IgM combo rapid diagnosing fever. Method Blood specimens were collected from 90 patients (of all ages) who presented with more than 4 days’ dur...

Correspondence Failures in the Detection of HIV p24 Antigen With the Determine HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab Combo Rapid Test TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the report by Rosenberg et al [1], showing that the Determine HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab Combo rapid test (Combo RT), in a field evaluation using whole blood collected from at-risk persons, performed poorly in the detection of acute human immunodeficiency virus (H...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR including MRV is an established method to diagnose CVT. However, it remains unsettled which MR imaging modalities offer the highest diagnostic accuracy. We evaluated the accuracy of a combined, dynamic (1.5 seconds per dataset) and static (voxel size, 1.1 x 0.9 x 1.5 mm), contrast-enhanced MRV method (combo-4D MRV) relative to other established MR/MRV modalities. MAT...