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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Evaluation of Acridine Orange Staining for a Semi-Automated Urinalysis Microscopic Examination at the Point-of-Care.

Amy J Powless, Sandra P Prieto, Madison R Gramling, Roxanna J Conley, Gregory G Holley, Timothy J Muldoon

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amy J PowlessDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. apowless@uark.edu.
Sandra P PrietoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. spprieto@uark.edu.
Madison R GramlingPat Walker Health Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. gramling@uark.edu.
Roxanna J ConleyPat Walker Health Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. rjconley@uark.edu.
Gregory G HolleyPat Walker Health Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. gholley@uark.edu.
Timothy J MuldoonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. tmuldoon@uark.edu.
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville · USWalker (United States) · US

Funding

Arkansas Biosciences Institute N/AArkansas Women's Giving Circle N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A urinary tract infection (UTI) can be diagnosed via urinalysis, consisting of a dipstick test and manual microscopic examination. Point-of-care (POC) image-based systems have been designed to automate the microscopic examination for low-volume laboratories or low-resource clinics. In this pilot study, acridine orange (AO) was evaluated as a fluorescence-based contrast agent to aid in detecting and enumerating urine sediment specific for diagnosing a UTI. Acridine orange staining of epithelial cells, leukocytes, and bacteria provided sufficient contrast to successfully implement image segmentation techniques, which enabled the extraction of classifiable morphologic features. Surface area bounded by each cell border was used to differentiate the sediment; epithelial cells were larger than 500μm

Indexed as

acridine orangecell classificationfluorescencepoint-of-careurinalysisurinary tract infection

Identifiers

PMID31540364
PMCPMC6787640
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