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21. Screening for Gonorrhea: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - • Vaginal culture remains an accurate screening test when transport conditions are suitable. … Culture isolates can be collected from endocervical swabs in women and urethral swabs in men. … Culture specimen specificity is 100% when culture isolates are speciated to differentiate Neisseria … gonorrhoeae from other organisms (because most studies define culture as the gold standard); however … , and compare better when transport conditions are not suitable for culture.

22. Archived: Chlamydial Infection (Including Ocular Prophylaxis in Newborns): Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - Urethral and endocervical cultures have been estimated to have a sensitivity of about 70-90% and a specificity … In one study, one fourth of women with positive cultures did not return for therapy. 28 In men, screening … Nonculture methods are appropriate alternatives to cell culture for diagnosis of infection. … In women, endocervical specimens should be obtained for cell culture or nonculture assays. … Use of cell culture and a rapid diagnostic assay for Chlamydia trachomatis screening.

23. Final Recommendation Statement: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 24, 2019 - 6 Screening Tests Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy is done with a urine culture … . 2 A culture obtained using a midstream, clean-catch urine sample with greater than 100,000 colony-forming … USPSTF continues to recommend screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant persons with urine culture … Both studies included patients screened at the first prenatal visit with urine culture and treated on … All 5 studies included participants who had 2 consecutive positive screening urine cultures using a midstream

24. Final Research Plan: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 28, 2017 - institutionalized or hospitalized Interventions KQs 1, 2: Screening with urine testing (e.g., urine culture … , urinalysis with microscopy, dipstick, dipslide, screening with reflex urine culture) KQs 3, 4:

25. Archived: Chlamydial Infection: Screening, 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 2001 - Although specificity is high with most approved tests, false-positive results can occur with all non-culture … tests and rarely with culture tests. … Until recently, culture has been accepted as the most specific test but it requires specialized handling … of RNA) may provide improved sensitivity, lower expense, availability, or timeliness of results over culture … less expensive and more sensitive DNA or RNA tests would improve cost-effectiveness when compared with culture

26. Archived: Final Research Plan: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan35/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
    November 15, 2013 - the techniques for screening for speech and language delay or disorders and do they differ by age and cultural … background?

27. Final Research Plan: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 14, 2022 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print Final Research Plan Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions July 14, 2022 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government…

28. Archived: Genital Herpes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    March 15, 2005 - Grade: D Screening Tests Methods for detecting herpes simplex virus include viral culture, polymerase … Methods for HSV detection include viral culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and antibody-based … Viral culture has a sensitivity of 50 percent and a specificity of nearly 100 percent. … infection with herpes in asymptomatic patients, or to diagnose infection in a symptomatic patient when culture … 14 percent of patients treated with placebo. 19 No patients in the acyclovir group had positive HSV cultures

29. Screening for Genital Herpes - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2005 - Methods for HSV detection include viral culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and antibody-based … Viral culture has a sensitivity of 50% and a specificity of nearly 100%. … infection with herpes in asymptomatic patients, or to diagnose infection in a symptomatic patient when culture … compared with 14% of patients treated with placebo.19 No patients in the acyclovir group had positive HSV cultures

30. Draft Research Plan: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    March 10, 2022 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print in progress Draft Research Plan Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions March 10, 2022 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S…

31. Final Research Plan: Early Allergen Introduction to Prevent Food Allergies in Infants: Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 05, 2024 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print in progress Final Research Plan Early Allergen Introduction to Prevent Food Allergies in Infants: Counseling September 05, 2024 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are indepen…

32. Draft Research Plan: Early Allergen Introduction to Prevent Food Allergies in Infants: Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 09, 2024 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print in progress Draft Research Plan Early Allergen Introduction to Prevent Food Allergies in Infants: Counseling May 09, 2024 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are indepen…

33. Alicia Fernandez, M.D. | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 2025 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print Alicia Fernandez, M.D. Member Alicia Fernandez, M.D., is a professor of medicine and associate dean at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A general interni…

34. Final Research Plan: High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 30, 2022 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print Final Research Plan High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions June 30, 2022 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government…

35. Archived: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - and Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays Viral culture is the most specific test for HIV infection, but … Despite their limitations as screening tests, viral culture, PCR, and viral antigen assays are useful … is 60-90% 22 , 56 and 84-98% for PCR, increasing after 3 months. 57 , 58 Using culture and/or PCR, … Detection of HIV-1 by polymerase chain reaction and culture in seronegative intravenous drug users in … Antigen detection, virus culture, polymerase chain reaction, and in vitro antibody production in the

36. Draft Research Plan: Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 23, 2023 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print in progress Draft Research Plan Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions February 23, 2023 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. T…

37. Final Research Plan: Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia During Pregnancy: Screening and Supplementation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 07, 2022 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print Final Research Plan Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia During Pregnancy: Screening and Supplementation July 07, 2022 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are indepen…

38. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - self-reported) or self-reported behavioral outcomes Self-reported measures of attitude, knowledge, beliefs

39. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary44/sexually-transmitted-infections-behavioral-counseling-2008
    October 15, 2008 - self-reported) or self-reported behavioral outcomes Self-reported measures of attitude, knowledge, beliefs

40. Final Research Plan: Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/perinatal-depression-interventions-to-prevent
    June 01, 2023 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print in progress Final Research Plan Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions June 01, 2023 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. T…