Field evaluation of an automated RDT reader and data management device for Plasmodium falciparum/Plasmodium vivax malaria in endemic areas of Colombia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Herrera, Sócrates ^a,b   Vallejo, Andrés F ^a,b   Quintero, Juan P ^a,b   Arévalo Herrera, Myriam ^a,b,c   Cancino, Marcela ^d   Ferro, Santiago ^d  

^a Caucaseco Scientific Research Center   (Colombia)

^b Latin American Center for Malaria Research   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^d FIO CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

DekiReader; Malaria rapid diagnostic test; mHealth; PCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEKI READER DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LABORATORY DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COLOMBIA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899094730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-87     Document Type: Article

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