Systematic review and meta-analysis: Rapid diagnostic tests versus placental histology, microscopy and PCR for malaria in pregnant women

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kattenberg, Johanna H ^a,b   Ochodo, Eleanor A ^a,b   Boer, Kimberly R ^a   Schallig, Henk Dfh ^a   Mens, Petra F ^a,b   Leeflang, Mariska Mg ^a,b  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diagnostic test accuracy; histology; Malaria; malaria in pregnancy (MiP); meta analysis; microscopy; PCR; pregnancy; rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs); systematic review

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMBASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 80054991445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-321     Document Type: Review

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