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The Usefulness of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in the New Context of Low Malaria Transmission in Zanzibar
BACKGROUND: We assessed if histidine-rich-protein-2 (HRP2) based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) remains an efficient tool for Plasmodium falciparum case detection among fever patients in Zanzibar and if primary health care workers continue to adhere to RDT results in the new epidemiological context of...
Autores principales: | Shakely, Delér, Elfving, Kristina, Aydin-Schmidt, Berit, Msellem, Mwinyi I., Morris, Ulrika, Omar, Rahila, Weiping, Xu, Petzold, Max, Greenhouse, Bryan, Baltzell, Kimberly A., Ali, Abdullah S., Björkman, Anders, Mårtensson, Andreas |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762850/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072912 |
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