Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: Plasmodium falciparum infections with high parasite densities may generate false positive Plasmodium vivax pLDH lines

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Maltha, Jessica ^a   Gillet, Philippe ^b   Cnops, Lieselotte ^b   Van Den Ende, Jef ^b   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^b   Jacobs, Jan ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRIMAQUINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954337856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-198     Document Type: Article

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