Field evaluation of the 22 rapid diagnostic tests for community management of malaria with artemisinin combination therapy in Cameroon

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ali, Innocent M ^a,b   Bigoga, Jude D ^a   Forsah, Dorothy A ^c   Cho Ngwa, Fidelis ^d   Tchinda, Vivian ^e   Moor, Vicky Ama ^a   Fogako, Josephine ^a   Nyongalema, Philomena ^a   Nkoa, Theresa ^c   Same Ekobo, Albert ^f   Mbede, Joseph ^g   Fondjo, Etienne ^b   Mbacham, Wilfred F ^a   Leke, Rose G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^c MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^e Med Plants/Traditional Med Res C   (Cameroon)

^f Higher Institute of Public Health Sciences   (Cameroon)

^g University Teaching Hospital Yaounde   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

HRP2; Malaria; Microscopy; Plasmodium falciparum; Positive predictive value; Rapid diagnostic test; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN 2; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INFANT; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84954441795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1085-0     Document Type: Article

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