Use of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Malaria School Surveys in Kenya: Does their Under-performance Matter for Planning Malaria Control?

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are known to yield false-positive results, and their use in epidemiologic surveys will overestimate infection prevalence and potentially hinder efficient targeting of interventions. To examine the consequences of using RDTs in school surveys, we compared three R...

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Main Authors: Gitonga, Caroline W., Kihara, Jimmy H., Njenga, Sammy M., Awuondo, Ken, Noor, Abdisalan M., Snow, Robert W., Brooker, Simon J.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516067/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091194
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0215
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