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The Importance of Accuracy in Diagnosis of Positive Malaria Cases in a Country Progressing Towards Malaria Elimination

BACKGROUND: With Sri Lanka aiming towards malaria elimination by 2015, the National Anti Malaria Campaign has stressed on the importance of identification of the species of Plasmodium either by examination of stained blood smears for malaria parasites or by Rapid Diagnostic Tests for malaria antigen...

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Autores principales:	Fernando, Sumadhya Deepika, Navaratne, Chathuri J, Galappaththy, Gawrie NL, Abeyasinghe, Rabindra R, Silva, Nilupa, Wickermasinghe, Renu
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3958980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672172 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.121992

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