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Towards a precise test for malaria diagnosis in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison among field microscopy, a rapid diagnostic test, nested PCR, and a computational expert system based on artificial neural networks

BACKGROUND: Accurate malaria diagnosis is mandatory for the treatment and management of severe cases. Moreover, individuals with asymptomatic malaria are not usually screened by health care facilities, which further complicates disease control efforts. The present study compared the performances of...

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Autores principales: Andrade, Bruno B, Reis-Filho, Antonio, Barros, Austeclino M, Souza-Neto, Sebastião M, Nogueira, Lucas L, Fukutani, Kiyoshi F, Camargo, Erney P, Camargo, Luís MA, Barral, Aldina, Duarte, Ângelo, Barral-Netto, Manoel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2883547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-117

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