Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Parasites
By A. Moody. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2002
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Subfields: Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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In Parasitology
- Christopher J. Drakeley
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- Teun Bousema
- P. Alonso
- Dennis E. Kyle
- P. Duffy
- F. S. Collins
- David A. Fidock
In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Christopher J. Drakeley
- B. Greenwood
- C. Guerra
- Robert W. Snow
- Teun Bousema
- P. Alonso
- Abdisalan M. Noor
- Dennis E. Kyle
Citations in the corpus
- Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication. (2008, positive): “Microscopy remains an important tool for diagnosis, but laboratory diagnosis in clinics without microscopy has now become possible through the development of rapid diagnostic tests (25).”
- A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)a (2013, methodology): “However, studies have reported a 21%–54% false positive rate in children with NP carriage and no evidence of pneumonia [87]. c No FDA cleared test is currently available.”
- Point-of-care diagnostics for global health. (2008, background): “There are several approaches to diagnose a malaria infection (Table 2), and each method has its own benefits and limitations (38).”
- Clinical review: Severe malaria (2003, background): “318 patients with suspected malaria, because occasionally these dipstick tests are negative in patients with high parasitemia, and their sensitivity below 100 parasites/μl is low [22].”
- Epidemiology and Infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax Gametocytes in Relation to Malaria Control and Elimination (2011, background): “Routine microscopy examining 100 microscopic fields may therefore miss gametocyte densities as high as 20 to 50 gametocytes/ l (119, 217, 292).”
- A World Malaria Map: Plasmodium falciparum Endemicity in 2007 (2009, methodology): “Regardless of whether nations champion sustained, intensive control or reach for the higher ambition of malaria elimination [2–4,74,112–114], the intermediate intervention paths are similar [19].”