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  2. Benedict's reagent - Wikipedia

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    Benedict's reagent (often called Benedict's qualitative solution or Benedict's solution) is a chemical reagent and complex mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium citrate, and copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate. [1] It is often used in place of Fehling's solution to detect the presence of reducing sugars and other reducing substances. [2]

  3. Elek's test - Wikipedia

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    Strains to be tested are streaked with known positive and known negative toxigenic strains on the agar's surface in a line across the plate, and at a right angle to the antitoxin paper strip. After incubation for 24 hours at 37 degrees Celsius , plates are examined with transmitted light for the presence of fine precipitin lines at a 45-degree ...

  4. Fehling's solution - Wikipedia

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    Formic acid (HCO 2 H) also gives a positive Fehling's test result, as it does with Tollens' (eponymous for Bernhard Christian Gottfried Tollens (1841 – 1918)) test and Benedict's solution also. The positive tests are consistent with it being readily oxidizable to carbon dioxide. The solution cannot differentiate between benzaldehyde and acetone.

  5. Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing - Wikipedia

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    Here "T+" or "T−" denote that the result of the test is positive or negative, respectively. Likewise, "D+" or "D−" denote that the disease is present or absent, respectively. So "true positives" are those that test positive (T+) and have the disease (D+), and "false positives" are those that test positive (T+) but do not have the disease (D ...

  6. Stool guaiac test - Wikipedia

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    The stool guaiac test involves fasting from iron supplements, red meat (the blood it contains can turn the test positive), certain vegetables (which contain a chemical with peroxidase properties that can turn the test positive), and vitamin C and citrus fruits (which can turn the test falsely negative) for a period of time before the test.

  7. Schick test - Wikipedia

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    Negative reaction: Indicates that the person is immune. Combined reaction: Initial picture is like that of the pseudo-reaction but the erythema fades off after four days only in the control arm. It progresses on the test arm to a typical positive. The subject is interpreted to be both susceptible and hypersensitive.

  8. Scientific control - Wikipedia

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    The simplest types of control are negative and positive controls, and both are found in many different types of experiments. [2] These two controls, when both are successful, are usually sufficient to eliminate most potential confounding variables: it means that the experiment produces a negative result when a negative result is expected, and a ...

  9. Sensitivity and specificity - Wikipedia

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    The true positive in this figure is 6, and false negatives of 0 (because all positive condition is correctly predicted as positive). Therefore, the sensitivity is 100% (from 6 / (6 + 0) ). This situation is also illustrated in the previous figure where the dotted line is at position A (the left-hand side is predicted as negative by the model ...