Is there a need for a new Point-of-Care Diagnostic for Women/Men Patients Seropositive for T. vaginalis, the Cause for the Number One, Non-viral STI?

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What is the minimum number of studies in each category required for a multiple subgroup analysis to be viable in a meta-analysis?

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How many indicators do I need to represent a latent construct?

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What is the structure of a photon that can describe the interference experiments that reject the wave nature of light?

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How do you incorporate a study that used non-parametric analysis into a meta-analysis where majority of studies used parametric?

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Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

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Christian G Meyer

There is a POC test for women and men available: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28684611/

John F Alderete

Yes, there is, if you are referring to the GeneXpert test mentioned by Gaydos et al. But, always a but, it is doubtful that it will work in less resourced, low income countries and, for sure, does not meet the WHO ASSURED criteria.