Accuracy of an HRP-2/panLDH rapid diagnostic test to detect peripheral and placental Plasmodium falciparum infection in Papua New Guinean women with anaemia or suspected malaria

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of malaria during pregnancy is complicated by placental sequestration, asymptomatic infection, and low-density peripheral parasitaemia. Where intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is threatened by drug resistance, or is inappropriate due to...

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Published in:Malar J
Main Authors: Umbers, Alexandra J., Unger, Holger W., Rosanas-Urgell, Anna, Wangnapi, Regina A., Kattenberg, Johanna H., Jally, Shadrach, Silim, Selina, Lufele, Elvin, Karl, Stephan, Ome-Kaius, Maria, Robinson, Leanne J., Rogerson, Stephen J., Mueller, Ivo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617889/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26480941
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0927-5
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