True versus apparent Malaria infection prevalence: The contribution of a Bayesian approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Speybroeck, Niko ^a   Praet, Nicolas ^b   Claes, Filip ^b   van Hong, Nguyen ^c   Torres, Kathy ^d   Mao, Sokny ^e   van den Eede, Peter ^b   Thinh, Ta Thi ^c   Gamboa, Dioni ^d,f   Sochantha, Tho ^e   Thang, Ngo Duc ^e   Coosemans, Marc ^a   Büscher, Philippe ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^b   Berkvens, Dirk ^b   Erhart, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c National Institute of Malariology Parasitology and Entomology Hanoi   (Viet Nam)

^d INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^e Centre National de Malariologie (CNM)   (Cambodia)

^f UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMICROSCOPY; CAMBODIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIET NAM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951980103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016705     Document Type: Article

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