Rapid Antigen Detection Tests for Malaria Diagnosis in Severely Ill Papua New Guinean Children: A Comparative Study Using Bayesian Latent Class Models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Manning, Laurens ^a   Laman, Moses ^a,b   Rosanas Urgell, Anna ^b   Turlach, Berwin ^c   Aipit, Susan ^b   Bona, Cathy ^b   Warrell, Jonathan ^b   Siba, Peter ^b   Mueller, Ivo ^b,d,e   Davis, Timothy M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^e WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BAYES LATENT CLASS MODEL; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID ANTIGEN DETECTION TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84868340896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048701     Document Type: Article

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