Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in Malaria (Evaluating the Diagnostic Value
Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in Malaria (Evaluating the Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Buffy Coat and Rapid Diagnostic Test using Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase against the Peripheral Smear Microscopy
... diagnosing malaria, it is time consuming, labour intensive and requires considerable expertise for it’s interpretation, and variable sensitivity and specificity compared to the recent technical advances, ...
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Blood transfer devices for malaria rapid diagnostic tests: evaluation of accuracy, safety and ease of use
... Prior to the evaluation, study staff demonstrated the correct use of each device to participating health work- ers, and allowed time for questions. Each participant then used each device under the observation of ...
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Evaluation of the utility value of three diagnostic methods in the detection of malaria parasites in endemic area
... two malaria microscopists who are certified by the WHO studied each specimen independently and results were recorded as being positive when both microscopists recorded a positive ...by malaria microscopy ...
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Irregular Migration as a Potential Source of Malaria Reintroduction in Sri Lanka and Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests at Point-of-Entry Screening
... Out Malaria. Despite micros- copy remaining the “gold standard” for malaria diagnosis, studies in nonendemic and endemic countries have proven the effectiveness of RDTs ...of diagnostic services for ...
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Increased use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests improves targeting of anti malarial treatment in rural Tanzania: implications for nationwide rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
... this evaluation was to assess performance of health care system with all the bottlenecks associated with it such as stock outs of medicines, diagnostics and other medical ...
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Evaluation of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Typhoid Fever
... for malaria, acid-fast bacilli (AFB) sputum smear for tuberculosis, blood or urine cultures for other bacterial patho- gens, or serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) detection by antibody-capture enzyme immunosorbent assay ...
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Accuracy of a Plasmodium falciparum specific histidine rich protein 2 rapid diagnostic test in the context of the presence of non malaria fevers, prior anti malarial use and seasonal malaria transmission
... a malaria infection in a febrile child before commencing treatment, malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become indispensable in the screening of malaria-suspected fever cases ...
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Diagnostic tools used in the evaluation of acute febrile illness in South India: a scoping review
... the diagnostic evaluation of febrile illness in South ...of tests are being used, and it raises concerns regarding the potential patient management implications resulting from the use of suboptimal ...
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Evaluation of the ICT Malaria P f/P v and the OptiMal Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Febrile Returned Travellers
... of malaria may be challenging for laboratories in countries where infection is not endemic, such that inaccu- racies are relatively common (2, 13, ...circulating malaria antigens have the poten- tial to ...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of malaria rapid diagnostic tests: a systematic review
... of malaria diagnosis, enhanced case identification is operationally feasible but now the question of concern for countries embarking on malaria control and elimination is how to allocate lim- ited resources ...
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Evaluation of three parasite lactate dehydrogenase based rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of falciparum and vivax malaria
... We thank all the patients who took part in the study and the large number of staff involved, in particular U Soe Myint Aung, Josefin Win Mon, Aung Myo Thu, San San Phyu, Saw Yi Htwe, U Taung Aung, Khin Thida, Maing Maing ...
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Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into registered drug shops in Uganda: lessons learned and policy implications
... Record keeping was found to be poor in drug shops prior to the intervention. Several forms were introduced for evaluating the intervention in addition to several pro- cedures. This was not a constraint to drug ...
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Utilization of Malaria Diagnostic Tests and Receipt of Anti Malarial Drugs by Febrile Patients Attending Outpatient Clinics of Health Centre IV Facilities in Mukono District, Uganda
... To begin with, bivariable analysis was done to identify independent variables that showed an association with the outcome variable of “receipt of anti-malarial drugs”. At bivariable analysis, all associations were ...
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Analytical sensitivity of current best in class malaria rapid diagnostic tests
... 13 malaria RDTs classified amongst the best performing products accord- ing to the results of the WHO–FIND product testing programme is reported ...stage malaria infections are normally characterized by a ...
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Evaluation of light microscopy and rapid diagnostic test for the detection of malaria under operational field conditions: a household survey in Ethiopia
... the tests are available in many formats including plastic cassettes, cards or dipsticks, and quality depends on manufacturer as well as storage ...falciparum-specific tests generally have greater ...
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Assessing the Diagnosis of Uncomplicated Malaria after Introduction of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests
... good value” to explain their understanding and satisfaction of services provided, and of 18 patients from private pharmacies, 10 ...of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests for diagnosis was ...
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Opportunities for improving pLDH based malaria diagnostic tests
... This value was chosen as generally low enough to indicate relative sensitivities of antibody com- binations based on the intensity of the reaction band and high enough to demonstrate the fidelity of the spe- ...
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Field evaluation of diagnostic performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in western Kenya
... This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi (protocol# KEMRI Protocol SSC# 2008) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Human Subjects Protection Division, ...
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The performance evaluation of a urine malaria test (UMT) kit for the diagnosis of malaria in individuals with fever in south east Nigeria: cross sectional analytical study
... rapid diagnostic test kits have improved on their sensitivity and specificity to the ranges of 80% to 95% compared with malaria microscopy ...the malaria RDT kits, the WHO set the lowest level of ...
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Swedish traveller with Plasmodium knowlesi malaria after visiting Malaysian Borneo
... knowlesi malaria infections in travellers are probably not rare events, particularly since south-east Asia has become a popular tourist ...rapid diagnostic test and evaluation of rapid ...
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