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Accuracy of diagnosis among clinical malaria patients: comparing microscopy, RDT and a highly sensitive quantitative PCR looking at the implications for submicroscopic infections

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of all suspected malaria cases by microscopy or rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) before treatment. These conventional tools are widely used for point-of-care diagnosis in spite of their poor sensitivity at low parasite de...

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Autores principales: Opoku Afriyie, Stephen, Addison, Thomas Kwame, Gebre, Yilekal, Mutala, Abdul-Hakim, Antwi, Kwasi Baako, Abbas, Dawood Ackom, Addo, Kofi Agyapong, Tweneboah, Austine, Ayisi-Boateng, Nana Kwame, Koepfli, Cristian, Badu, Kingsley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9985253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36870966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04506-5