After any heartworm treatment, the antigen heartworm tests have a greater
incidence of false positive results since the test is for antigens that are released from dead heartworms as well as live heartworms.
Not exact matches
A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller
incidence of false -
positive results.
To increase the accuracy
of medical screening and reduce the
incidence of false positives, Chuong, along with UCSB chemistry and biochemistry professors Martin Moskovits and Galen Stucky and Stanford chemical engineering professor Tom Soh, designed a biomedical assay that eliminates the readout
of these faulty
results.