Neisseria gonorrhoeaenucleic acid amplification testself‐obtained vaginal swabStudy objective Provider–performed endocervical sampling (PPES) in the diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) may be difficult to perform in a busy emergency department (ED) due to patient ...
Field methods, consent procedures, the swab protocol, laboratory procedures, and results reporting are described. Results. One thousand twenty-eight respondents (67.5% weighted) agreed to provide a vaginal specimen; 99.1% were successful. The specimen adequacy rates were BV and VC, 94.1%; HR-HPV...
Aim To first compare the accuracy of self-, Physician-HPV testing and VIA as standalone screening tests; and second to compare the accuracy of Self-HPV positive test triaged with VIA with the different standalone screening tests as colposcopy and histologically confirmed CIN for cervical cancer sc...
One (11%) of 9 women with high-grade disease who did not have HPV DNA detected on the clinician-obtained sample had HPV DNA detected on the self-collected vaginal swab. Age Differences in Test Performance No significant differences existed in the prevalence of high-grade disease, prevalence ...
et al. HPV detection in a self-collected vaginal swab combined with VIA for cervical cancer screening with correlation to histologically confirmed CIN. Arch Gynecol Obstet 290, 1207–1213 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-014-3321-6 Download citation Received14 October 2013 Accepted16 ...
In the same study, HPV Selfy has been also validated on self-collected vaginal samples for screening purposes, satisfying the requirements indicated by VALHUDES protocol [36]. HPV self-sampling can be performed by using a simple vaginal swab, an easy and non-invasive self-sampling device [37...
Vaginal specimens were self-collected using the validated HerSwab™ device. Cervical specimens were collected by gynecologists. Specimens were tested for presence of high-risk HPV (hrHPV) by the cobas® 4800 HPV Test. We estimated positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) and 95% ...
The acceptability of vaginal smear self-collection for screening for cervical cancer: a systematic review Cervical cancer is a major cause of death in adult women. However, many women do not undergo cervical cancer screening for the following reasons: fear, sha... NS Braz,NP Lorenzi,IC Sorpres...
with the 2019 novel virus. Any interpretation or use of this preliminary test result must also rely on other clinical findings as well as on the professional judgment of health care providers. Alternative test method(s) should be considered to confirm the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kit that will allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for HPV screening, a move that could increase early detection in those at risk forcervical cancer. Ad Women will be able to swab themselves in privacy at a doctor's office,...