Performance of HRP-2 based rapid diagnostic test for malaria and its variation with age in an area of intense malaria transmission in southern tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Laurent, Anne ^a   Schellenberg, Joanna ^a   Shirima, Kizito ^b   Ketende, Sosthenes C ^b   Alonso, Pedro L ^c   Mshinda, Hassan ^b   Tanner, Marcel ^d,e   Schellenberg, David ^a  

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

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN 2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HRP 2 ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; HRP-2 ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958118888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-294     Document Type: Article

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