Malaria self-testing by travellers: Opportunities and limitations

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 143-148

  Jelinek, Tomas ^a  

^a Institute of Tropical Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipstick tests; Malaria; Self testing

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SELF EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAVEL;

EID: 4544364604     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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