Health facility-based malaria surveillance: The effects of age, area of residence and diagnostics on test positivity rates

BACKGROUND: The malaria test positivity rate (TPR) is increasingly used as an indicator of malaria morbidity because TPR is based on laboratory-confirmed cases and is simple to incorporate into existing surveillance systems. However, temporal trends in TPR may reflect changes in factors associated w...

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Autores principales: Francis, Damon, Gasasira, Anne, Kigozi, Ruth, Kigozi, Simon, Nasr, Sussann, Kamya, Moses R, Dorsey, Grant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22770511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-229

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22770511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-229

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