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Monday 28 August 2017
Prevention and Screening
Prevention of any kind of disease requires early detection of the causative agents of the disease through thorough screening. In screening for the causative agent, the screening test should be highly sensitive and specific to pick up the truly positive cases, that is those that really have the pathogen causing the disease and leave out the true negatives, that is those cases which really don’t have the causative agent. A test that picks up false positive as well as false negatives can be disastrous depending on the kind of disease the test is designed to detect.
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