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DNA recovery from used malaria RDT to detect Plasmodium species and to assess Plasmodium falciparum genetic diversity: A pilot study in Madagascar
2022-02-21
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Rapid diagnostic tests (mRDT) are widely used for malaria diagnosis in Madagascar, where <italic>Plasmodium falciparum</italic> is the predominant species. Molecular diagnosis is essential for malaria surveillance, but requires additional blood samples for DNA extraction. Used mRDTs is an attractive alternative that can be used as a source of DNA. <italic>P. fal...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 358bad42-fe72-5878-b761-85fd9d65f044
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250809/v1
