Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection is associated with anaemia in pregnancy and can be more cost-effectively detected by rapid diagnostic test than by microscopy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Matangila, Junior R ^a,c   Lufuluabo, Jean ^b   Ibalanky, Axel L ^a   Inocêncio Da Luz, Raquel A ^c   Lutumba, Pascal ^a   Van Geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^b Inst Sup des Techniques Medicales   (Congo)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Asymptomatic P. falciparum infection; Cost effectiveness; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898433174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-132     Document Type: Article

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