Quality assurance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests used for routine patient care in rural Tanzania: microscopy versus real-time polymerase chain reaction

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends parasitologic confirmation of suspected malaria cases before treatment. Due to the limited availability of quality microscopy services, this recommendation has become scalable following increased use of antigen-detecting malaria rapid diagno...

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Autores principales: Masanja, Irene M, McMorrow, Meredith L, Maganga, Mussa B, Sumari, Debora, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, McElroy, Peter D, Kachur, S Patrick, Lucchi, Naomi W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0597-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0597-3

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