Global Health and Tropical Medicine
The individual dynamic collaborative practice (IDCP) is a new theoretical construct proposed to advance understanding of the individuals’ role in enacting inter-organisational collaboration (IOC) for supporting research organisations.
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MinION is a portable device which applies real-time nanopore sequencing technology to nucleic acid analyses. MinION has several applications, namely whole-genome sequencing, targeting sequencing, Metagenomics, RNA sequencing or Epigenetics.
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Despite the increasing popularity of Bayesian statistics, some concepts (e.g., prior information, posterior distribution, credibility intervals) remain unclear for non-statisticians. The evaluation of diagnostic tests is a good example to explain Bayesian statistics.
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Evaluation of schistosomiasis control programs, a snail-borne disease caused by Schistosoma spp, requires accurate diagnostic techniques to assess the infection status when low prevalence is achieved in endemic areas under mass drug administration (MDA).
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PCR based methods for detection of pathogens require thermocyclers and either subsequent electrophoresis or expensive equipment for real-time detection of amplification products.
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