Assessment of LED fluorescence microscopy for the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infections in Gabon

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lenz, Dominic ^a,b   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,b   Lell, Bertrand ^a,b   Biallas, Barbara ^a,b   Boettcher, Michael ^a,b   Mordmüller, Benjamin ^a,b   Adegnika, Ayola A ^a,b,c  

^a ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEVER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GABON; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL HISTORY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TIME;

GABON; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960563489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-194     Document Type: Article

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