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High sensitivity of a novel rapid test for the diagnosis of clinical and subclinical <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> infections in a high transmission setting in Burundi
2022-04-28
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Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are a key tool for the diagnosis of malaria infections among febrile and subclinical individuals. Low-density infections, and deletions of the P. falciparum hrp2 / 3 genes (encoding for the HRP2 and HRP3 proteins detected by many RDTs) present challenges for RDT-based diagnosis. The novel Rapigen Biocredit three-band Plasmodium falciparum HRP2/LDH RDT was evaluated among 444 febrile a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e321dc8f-cf24-5ddb-8ab8-e151c018a026
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.04.26.22274317
