An assessment of false positive rates for malaria rapid diagnostic tests caused by non-Plasmodium infectious agents and immunological factors

BACKGROUND: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) can produce false positive (FP) results in patients with human African trypanosomiasis and rheumatoid factor (RF), but specificity against other infectious agents and immunological factors is largely unknown. Low diagnostic specificity caused by cros...

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Autores principales: Gatton, Michelle L., Ciketic, Sadmir, Barnwell, John W., Cheng, Qin, Chiodini, Peter L., Incardona, Sandra, Bell, David, Cunningham, Jane, González, Iveth J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29758050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197395

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29758050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197395

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