Corrigendum to “Malaria surveillance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Comparison of microscopy, PCR, and rapid diagnostic test” (Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. (2016) 85 (1)(16–8) (S0732889316000055) (10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.01.004));Malaria surveillance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Comparison of microscopy, PCR, and rapid diagnostic test

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 16-18

  Doctor, Stephanie M ^a   Liu, Yunhao ^a,b   Whitesell, Amy ^a   Thwai, Kyaw L ^a   Taylor, Steve M ^c   Janko, Mark ^b,d   Emch, Michael ^b,d   Kashamuka, Melchior ^e   Muwonga, Jérémie ^f   Tshefu, Antoinette ^e   Meshnick, Steven R ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^e cliniques universitaires de Kinshasa   (Congo)

^f Ministry of Public Health   (Congo)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Latent class analysis; Malaria; Microscopy; PCR; Rapid diagnostic test; RDT; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84963622366     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2017.08.006     Document Type: Erratum

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