Estimating malaria parasite prevalence from community surveys in Uganda: a comparison of microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests and polymerase chain reaction

BACKGROUND: Household surveys are important tools for monitoring the malaria disease burden and measuring impact of malaria control interventions with parasite prevalence as the primary metric. However, estimates of parasite prevalence are dependent on a number of factors including the method used t...

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Autores principales: Nankabirwa, Joaniter I., Yeka, Adoke, Arinaitwe, Emmanuel, Kigozi, Ruth, Drakeley, Chris, Kamya, Moses R., Greenhouse, Bryan, Rosenthal, Philip J., Dorsey, Grant, Staedke, Sarah G.
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/PMC4696244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26714465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1056-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26714465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1056-x

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