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Prozone-like phenomenon in travellers with fatal malaria: report of two cases

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015
Malaria diagnosis remains a concern in non-endemic countries, with rapid diagnosis being crucial to improve patients’ outcome. Rapid diagnostic tests have high sensitivity but they also have flaws and false-negative results that might jeopardize malaria ...
Lurdes Santos, Nuno Rocha Pereira, Paulo Andrade, Paulo Figueiredo Dias, Carlos Lima Alves, Cândida Abreu, Rosário Serrão, Manuela Ribeiro, António Sarmento   +8 more
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Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria: past, present and future [PDF]

, 2016
Prompt and accurate diagnosis of malaria is part of an effective disease management (1) , because if not treated malaria can quickly become life-threatening, whereas false positives increase treatment costs and drug-induced resistance, giving a wrong ...
Fernàndez Busquets, Xavier, Valle Delgado, Juan José   +1 more
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Malaria and the ‘last’ parasite: how can technology help?

Malaria Journal, 2018
Malaria, together with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis are the four most deadly infectious diseases globally. Progress in eliminating malaria has saved millions of lives, but also creates new challenges in detecting the ‘last parasite’.
Ngoc Minh Pham, Walter Karlen, Hans-Peter Beck, Emmanuel Delamarche   +3 more
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Diagnostic performance evaluation of hepatitis B e antigen rapid diagnostic tests in Malawi

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has targeted a reduction in viral hepatitis-related mortality by 65% and incidence by 90% by 2030, necessitating enhanced hepatitis B treatment and prevention programmes in low- and middle-income countries ...
Alexander J. Stockdale, Niza M. Silungwe, Isaac Thom Shawa, Benno Kreuels, Melita A. Gordon, Anna Maria Geretti   +5 more
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Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Parasites [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2002
SUMMARY Malaria presents a diagnostic challenge to laboratories in most countries. Endemic malaria, population movements, and travelers all contribute to presenting the laboratory with diagnostic problems for which it may have little expertise available.
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Implementing ideal health policy in a fragile health system: the example of expanding the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in mainland Tanzania

Malaria Journal, 2011
Malaria confirmation before treatment provides an opportunity for improving the quality of malaria case management in endemic regions. However, increased coverage of this strategy is facing many organizational, logistical and technical challenges that ...
de Bethune Xavier, Masanja Irene M, Jacobs Jan   +2 more
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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
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Veterinary Diagnostic Practice and the Use of Rapid Tests in Antimicrobial Stewardship on UK Livestock Farms

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
In this paper we consider the shifting role, practice and context of veterinary diagnosis in addressing concerns over what is, in the context of the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, considered unnecessary or excessive antimicrobial medicine ...
Henry Buller, Katie Adam, Alison Bard, Ann Bruce, Kin Wing (Ray) Chan, Stephen Hinchliffe, Lisa Morgans, Gwen Rees, Kristen K. Reyher   +8 more
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International meeting: New diagnostic tests are urgently needed to treat patients with Chagas disease. [PDF]

, 2008
Trypanosoma cruzi infection is often not detected early on or actively diagnosed, partly because most infected individuals are either asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic.
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
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Malaria rapid diagnostic tests in travel medicine [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2013
Malaria is a serious condition in the non-immune traveller, and prognosis depends on timely diagnosis. Although microscopy remains the cornerstone of diagnosis, malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are increasingly used in non-endemic settings. They are easy to use, provide results rapidly and require no specific training and equipment.
Maltha, J., Gillet, P., Jacobs, J.
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