Dengue Kit Research Articles

Quality Inspection of Dengue kits using YOLOv4 architecture

Abstract: With the increasing advancements in Artificial Intelligence and its varied applications across multiple domains, the manufacturing industry is not left behind. Manufacturing and Production require a lot of labour force to ensure good quality end results. While this may be a necessity in the rudimentary stages of development, there is a way to cut down on this while checking the quality of the end product. This project aims at using the power of Artificial Intelligence, specifically Computer vision to create a quality inspecting tool that entails localizing and predicting the required objects in the image of the Dengue kit. This project highlights the entire process including simulation, design of conveyor belt and displays the final process of how both combined can help catalyse quality inspection by subtracting the manual crunch. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Inspection, Computer vision, Industry 4.0 Revolution, Object Detection, Yolov4

The Design of IoT Dengue Alert Supervisions System with RFID Access

This research presents a development of a patient’s Dengue Alert Supervisions (DAS) System. The system is designed adaptively to alert patients and can be monitored over the Microsoft Windows Interfacing Applications system. The purpose is to alert patients on dengue attacks if they are possibly infected with dengue. Problem identifies that patients are difficult and hard to go for regular medical check-ups especially to the hospital. They face issues like long queues and long waiting times at public hospitals and it takes time to diagnose the dengue attacks. The objective of this system is to design a handy system for dengue detectors and to accurately warn the patients so that, they are being treated properly. The elements designed in this system comprised of a temperature sensor and blood dengue kit which is combined with push buttons as a tool to determine the condition of blood cells. This system used Radio-Frequency identification (RFID) access card to detect personal details. The database is directed to Windows application s on the DAS system. Results present the value of the blood level of infected dengue and body temperature in an online graph. The data can automatically send to hospitals online and access by medical officers on current situations. The system is beneficial to society as it is an essay system that can provide the user with simple and timely feedback. It would also be a significant invention to medical officers in diagnosing patients with much easier and quicker collection data using the Internet of Things (IoT).

Managing Dengue Disaster: Uncovering Paramount Community Elements for DNA Sensory Tool Accessibility in Malaysia

In this study, communities’ psychosocial judgements (relationship, awareness, responsibility, and attitude) were evaluated in relation to DNA-based dengue kit accessibility. It was carried out by handing out 100 structured questionnaires (Kajang Housing (KjH): 40, Kajang Industrial (KjI): 40, Kuala Selangor (KuS): 20). From our descriptive analyses, KuS respondents exhibited a closer relationship with their neighbours (100%) compared to other respondents. KjH, KjI and KuS respondents know very little about dengue vector species. While KjH is leading the other two study areas, KjI and KuS in terms of knowing all symptoms associated with dengue fever (DF), KuS shows more interest to participate in dengue campaigns and/or prevention and control programs compared to KjH and KjI. Not more than 25% of total respondents are willing to offer transportation or nurturing their neighbours back to health. While KjI is more confident to use DNA biosensor when outside of their community, not more than 35% of total respondents are confident enough to use it within their neighbourhood. All communities, especially the affected ones, should take a proactive step by making use of DNA biosensor as an early warning tool, in conjunction with good psychosocial behaviours towards dengue, to achieve sustainable health promotion in managing dengue disaster.

Nationwide study of factors associated with public's willingness to use home self-test kit for dengue fever in Malaysia.

BackgroundAs there is no specific treatment for dengue, early detection and access to proper treatment may lower dengue fatality. Therefore, having new techniques for the early detection of dengue fever, such as the use of dengue test kit, is vitally important. The aims of the study were: 1) identify factors associated with acceptance of a home self-test kit for dengue fever if the dengue test is available to the public and 2) find out the characteristics of the test kits that influence the use of the dengue test kit.MethodsA national telephone survey was carried out with 2,512 individuals of the Malaysian public aged 18–60 years old. Individuals were contacted by random digit dialling covering the whole of Malaysia from February 2012 to June 2013.ResultsFrom 2,512 participants, 6.1 % reported to have heard of the availability of the dengue home test kit and of these, 44.8 % expressed their intention to use the test kit if it was available. Multivariate logistic regressions indicated that participants with primary (OR: 0.65; 95 % CI: 0.43–0.89; p = 0.02, vs. tertiary educational level) and secondary educational levels (OR: 0.73; 95 % CI: 0.57–0.90; p = 0.01, vs. tertiary educational level) were less likely than participants with a tertiary educational level to use a home self-testing dengue kit for dengue if the kit was available. Participants with lower perceived barriers to dengue prevention (level of barriers 0–5) were less likely (OR: 0.67, 95 % CI: 0.53–0.85, p < 0.001, vs. higher perceived barriers) to use a home self-testing dengue kit for dengue if the kit was available compared to those with higher perceived barriers to dengue prevention (level of barriers 6-10). Participants with a lower total dengue fever knowledge score (range 0–22) were also less likely to use a home self-testing dengue kit for dengue if the kit was available (OR: 0.75; 95 % CI: 0.61–0.91, p = 0.001, vs. higher total dengue fever knowledge score) compared to those with a higher total dengue fever knowledge score (range 23–44). With response to characteristics of the test kit, participants indicated that ease of usability and easy to understand instructions were the most important factors influencing the decision to use the dengue home test kit; this was followed by the price of the test kit.ConclusionsThe study highlights the need for provision of information to increase knowledge about the home self-testing dengue kit. Educational interventions should target people with low educational levels, those with lower dengue fever knowledge and those with lower perceived barriers to dengue prevention.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3409-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Padronização e uso de um método imunoenzimático que utiliza células infectadas como antígeno no diagnóstico rotineiro do dengue

This paper show the standardization and use of the immunoenzymatic method using infected cells as antigens (EIA-ICC) for routine serological diagnosing of dengue. In optimizing the test, a dose of 1,000 TCID50 of dengue type 3 virus (DENV-3) was used, and 100,000 C636 cells infected with 1,000 TCID50 (DENV-3) were used. The results obtained with EIA-ICC were compared with the HUMAN commercial dengue kit. The results were highly concordant. The EIA-ICC showed moderate sensitivity and high specificity. The test was used for serologically diagnosing 1,797 blood samples from suspected dengue cases during the 2006 epidemic in Ribeirao Preto. From the serological evaluation, 228 samples were positive for IgM against DENV-3; 235 samples were positive for IgG against DENV-3; and 35 samples were positive for both IgG and IgM. EIA-ICC was shown to be reliable and simple, and suitable for serologically diagnosing dengue.