Investigating portable fluorescent microscopy (CyScope®) as an alternative rapid diagnostic test for malaria in children and women of child-bearing age

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sousa Figueiredo, José Carlos ^a,b   Oguttu, David ^c   Adriko, Moses ^c   Besigye, Fred ^c   Nankasi, Andrina ^c   Arinaitwe, Moses ^c   Namukuta, Annet ^c   Betson, Martha ^a   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^c   Stothard, J Russell ^a  

^a Dept of Oral Medicine and Pathology   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSCOPE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GIEMSA STAIN; GOLD STANDARD; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UGANDA; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL POPULATION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955957368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-245     Document Type: Article

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