Laboratory demonstration of a prozone-like effect in HRP2-detecting malaria rapid diagnostic tests: implications for clinical management

BACKGROUND: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are now widely used for prompt on-site diagnosis in remote endemic areas where reliable microscopy is absent. Aberrant results, whereby negative test results occur at high parasite densities, have been variously reported for over a decade and have le...

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Autores principales: Luchavez, Jennifer, Baker, Joanne, Alcantara, Sheila, Belizario, Vicente, Cheng, Qin, McCarthy, James S, Bell, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-286

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-286

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