Malaria Surveillance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Comparison of Microscopy, PCR, and Rapid Diagnostic Test

Malaria surveillance is critical for control efforts, but diagnostic methods frequently disagree. Here we compare microscopy, PCR, and a Rapid Diagnostic Test in 7,137 samples from children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo using Latent Class Analysis. PCR had the highest sensitivity (94.6%) a...

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Publicat a:Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Autors principals: Doctor, Stephanie M., Liu, Yunhao, Whitesell, Amy, Thwai, Kyaw L., Taylor, Steve M., Janko, Mark, Emch, Michael, Kashamuka, Melchior, Muwonga, Jérémie, Tshefu, Antoinette, Meshnick, Steven R.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: 2016
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841725/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26915637
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.01.004
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