The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in Zanzibar.

The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in Zanzibar.

We assessed if histidine-rich-protein-2 (HRP2) based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) remains an efficient tool for Plasmodium falciparum case detection among fever patients in Zanzibar and if primary health care workers continue to adhere to RDT results in the new epidemiological context of low malaria...

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Main Authors: Delér Shakely, Kristina Elfving, Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Mwinyi I Msellem, Ulrika Morris, Rahila Omar, Xu Weiping, Max Petzold, Bryan Greenhouse, Kimberly A Baltzell, Abdullah S Ali, Anders Björkman, Andreas Mårtensson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3762850?pdf=render

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