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Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Maintaining quality, competitiveness and innovation in global health technology is a constant challenge for manufacturers, while affordability, access and equity are challenges for governments and international agencies.
Theodoor Visser, Jennifer Daily, Nora Hotte, Caitlin Dolkart, Jane Cunningham, Prashant Yadav   +5 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of antibody-based rapid diagnostic tests in detecting coronavirus disease 2019: systematic review

Archives of Medical Science, 2021
Introduction The rapid transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requires a fast, accurate, and affordable detection method. Despite doubts of its diagnostic accuracy, Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) is world-widely used in consideration for its ...
Tiara Josephine Gracienta, Ryan Herardi, Frans Santosa, Taufiq Fredrik Pasiak, Yanto Sandy Tjang   +4 more
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Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of prototype rapid tests for human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2014
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A Agresti, A Garcia, C Burri, D Malvy, E Hasker, F Chappuis, GA Posthuma-Trumpie, Jayne Raper, Jeremy M. Sternberg, JM Sternberg, Joseph M. Ndung'u, JR Landis, K Ziegelbauer, L Sullivan, L Sullivan, Marek Gierliński, Michael A. J. Ferguson, MP Barrett, N VanMeirvenne, P Buscher, P Buscher, P Dukes, P Mitashi, P Mitashi, PG Kennedy, PP Simarro, RW Peeling, SL Wastling, Sylvain Biéler   +28 more
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Rapid diagnostic testing for malaria [PDF]

Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2003
SummaryMalaria rapid diagnostic devices (MRDD) have been developed with the hope that they would offer accurate, reliable, rapid, cheap and easily available alternatives to traditional methods of malaria diagnosis. The results from early malaria rapid diagnostic studies were quite promising, especially for detecting Plasmodium falciparum at densities ...
Clinton K, Murray, David, Bell, Robert A, Gasser, Chansuda, Wongsrichanalai   +3 more
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Rapid diagnostic tests for plague [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019
Plague is a severe disease associated with high mortality. Late diagnosis leads to advance stage of the disease with worse outcomes and higher risk of spread of the disease. A rapid diagnostic test (RDT) could help in establishing a prompt diagnosis of plague.
Jullien, Sophie, Dissanayake, Harsha A, Chaplin, Martha   +2 more
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COVID-19 Impact on Diagnostic Innovations: Emerging Trends and Implications

Diagnostics, 2021
Diagnostic testing remains the backbone of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response, supporting containment efforts to mitigate the outbreak. The severity of this crisis and increasing capacity issues associated with polymerase chain reaction ...
Anne O. Oyewole, Lucy Barrass, Emily G. Robertson, James Woltmann, Hannah O’Keefe, Harsimran Sarpal, Kim Dangova, Catherine Richmond, Dawn Craig   +8 more
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Influenza Surveillance with Rapid Diagnostic Tests [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2002
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Fukuda, Keiji, Cox, Nancy J., Uyeki, Timothy M.   +2 more
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Evaluation of an ultrasensitive HRP2–based rapid diagnostic test for detection of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia among children in western Kenya

Malaria Journal, 2022
Background Accurate detection of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia in children living in high transmission areas is important for malaria control and reduction programmes that employ screen-and-treat surveillance strategies.
Lindsey B. Turnbull, George Ayodo, Veronicah Knight, Chandy C. John, Megan S. McHenry, Tuan M. Tran   +5 more
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The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in zanzibar. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND\ud \ud We assessed if histidine-rich-protein-2 (HRP2) based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) remains an efficient tool for Plasmodium falciparum case detection among fever patients in Zanzibar and if primary health care workers continue to adhere ...
A Bhattarai, A Manjurano, A Martensson, Abdullah S. Ali, Anders Björkman, Andreas Mårtensson, Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Bryan Greenhouse, Delér Shakely, E Nicastri, G Holmgren, H Reyburn, J Baker, J Baker, J Chinkhumba, K Baltzell, KB Beshir, Kimberly A. Baltzell, Kristina Elfving, LC Okell, Lorenz von Seidlein, Max Petzold, MI Msellem, MI Veiga, ML McMorrow, ML McMorrow, MS Hsiang, Mwinyi I. Msellem, OA Koita, P Gillet, P Gillet, Rahila Omar, S Dahlstrom, S Thiam, SE Shokoples, TA Abeku, Ulrika Morris, Xu Weiping, Z Bisoffi   +38 more
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Quantifying the potential value of antigen-detection rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19: a modelling analysis

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background Testing plays a critical role in treatment and prevention responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to nucleic acid tests (NATs), antigen-detection rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) can be more accessible, but typically have lower ...
Saskia Ricks, Emily A. Kendall, David W. Dowdy, Jilian A. Sacks, Samuel G. Schumacher, Nimalan Arinaminpathy   +5 more
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