Saving private Ryan: The Indian scenario (rapid diagnosis of malaria at regimental aid post)

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-141

  Gokhale, S ^a  

^a Department of Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Falciparum malaria; Paracheck Pf ICT method; Pf HRP 2 antigen; Rapid diagnosis of malaria

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HISTIDINE;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLDIER;

EID: 2342544786     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(04)80104-7     Document Type: Article

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