Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT)
Assessment of the prozone effect in malaria rapid diagnostic tests
... malaria rapid diagnostic tests is expanding, both in endemic and non-endemic settings ...agglutination tests, for which serial dilutions are advised to trace the effect ...in RDT is ...
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The impact of the scale up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the routine clinical diagnosis procedures for febrile illness: a series of repeated cross sectional studies in Papua New Guinea
... Health worker access to malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has increased exponentially over the past dec- ade. Annual global sales increased from approximately 120 to 300 million between 2011 and ...
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Safety of falciparum malaria diagnostic strategy based on rapid diagnostic tests in returning travellers and migrants: a retrospective study
... malaria tests, especially so if symptoms persist or ...since RDT of last generation do detect vivax with excel- lent sensitivity) and in a paediatric population ...
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Self diagnosis of malaria by travellers: a cohort study on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests provided by a Swiss travel clinic
... with RDT. In this study, the most difficult step of RDT performance observed during the training run was blood aspiration with the ...assessing RDT use by community health workers with no medical ...
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Management of uncomplicated malaria in febrile under five year old children by community health workers in Madagascar: reliability of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
... In Madagascar, the integrated management of febrile syndromes at the community level remains a priority NMCP strategy for providing impoverished populations with diagnosis results and effective anti-malarial treat- ment ...
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Assessment of desiccants and their instructions for use in rapid diagnostic tests
... In view of the protecting role of the desiccant and the implications of humidity excess, it is striking that 40% of RDT products did not supply a self-indicating desiccant in the device packaging. The fact that, ...
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Stabilization of RDT target antigens present in dried Plasmodium falciparum infected samples for validating malaria rapid diagnostic tests at the point of care
... CareStart RDT was not included in the analysis because sample retesting could not be conducted to week 53 of storage; due to lack of similar lot number of the kit in the ...
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Rapid diagnostic tests failing to detect Plasmodium falciparum infections in Eritrea: an investigation of reported false negative RDT results
... In Eritrea, RDTs have been the mainstay of malaria diagnosis in majority of health facilities and community health workers with no microscopy services. However, whenever three-quarters of the RDT tests fail ...
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Dispensary level pilot implementation of rapid diagnostic tests: an evaluation of RDT acceptance and usage by providers and patients – Tanzania, 2005
... to RDT implementation at the selected sites, RDT training was conducted with the dispensary staff that would be involved with using the RDTs in this evaluation over a two-day period and included information ...
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Performance and time to become negative after treatment of three malaria rapid diagnostic tests in low and high malaria transmission settings
... sensitive tests such as the HRP2 RDTs, accepting the associated risk of unnecessar- ily treating uninfected patients over taking the risk of fail- ing to detect malaria ...HRP2 tests is also problematic, ...
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Rapid diagnostic tests for typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever
... reference tests are negative then we have described these as a non-enteric fever ...positive RDT result may ac- tually be true positives rather than false ...index tests were evaluated against more ...
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Evaluation of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Typhoid Fever
... Researchers continue to search for the ideal rapid test to diagnose acute typhoid fever. Several urine assays have been developed (1, 3, 12, 18), although none has proved optimal. In the field, there is a definite ...
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Performance of SO Bioline FK80 Test Kit in Diagnosis of Malaria at Adama Malaria Center, Southeast Oromia, Ethiopia
... Diagnosis of malaria is still challenging in resource poor countries including Ethiopia. Skill of laboratory personnel is also another problem in malaria diagnosis. Parasitological confirmation of malaria through quality ...
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Routine parallel diagnosis of malaria using microscopy and the malaria rapid diagnostic test SD 05FK60: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières in Myanmar
... a diagnostic tool in settings where the case load is high and resources lim- ited ...called rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), are an attractive alternative as they are quick and easy to carry out ...
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Epidemiology of subpatent Plasmodium falciparum infection: implications for detection of hotspots with imperfect diagnostics
... on rapid diagnostic tests for mass screen and treat campaigns has been proposed as a method to detect and treat individuals in ...with rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) ...
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Plasmodium falciparum diagnostic tools in HIV positive under 5 year olds in two ART clinics in Ghana: are there missed infections?
... Improved rapid diagnostic tests (RDT), which are faster, cheaper and easier compared to the gold standard expert microscopy, are complementing malaria control efforts in resource-limited ...
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Using mobile phone text messaging for malaria surveillance in rural Kenya
... and rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) and four basic malaria surveillance data elements (number of outpa- tients presenting at the health facility, number of out- patients tested for malaria, ...
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Integrated paediatric fever management and antibiotic over treatment in Malawi health facilities: data mining a national facility census
... malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) ...of RDT-negative patients with anti-malarial or antibiotic drugs ...of RDT into the IMCI framework, although few studies have explicitly ...
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Interpreting rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for Plasmodium falciparum
... Objective: Rapid diagnostic tests have been of tremendous help in malaria control in endemic areas, helping in diagnosis and treatment of malaria ...malaria RDT test results, the possible ...
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The Potential of Intermittent Screening and Treatment with Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for the control of malaria in pregnancy in areas with high sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance
... Women already known to be HIV-positive were automatically excluded from the study. All women were offered HIV counselling and testing using rapid diagnostic tests, and if they refused or were found ...
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