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<i>Plasmodium falciparum w</i>ith<i>pfhrp2/3</i>deletion not detected in a 2018-2021 malaria longitudinal cohort study in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2022-11-18
Abstract excerpt
Histidine-rich protein 2- (HRP2-) based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are widely used to detect Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa. Reports of parasites with pfhrp2 and/or pfhrp3 (pfhrp2/3) gene deletions in Africa raise concerns about the long-term viability of HRP2-based RDTs. We evaluated changes in pfhrp2/3 deletion prevalence over time using a 2018-2021 longitudinal study of 1,635 enrolled individual...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fa36fe4a-e5a0-5949-b07b-2f3ba7f4bc94
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.11.16.22282427
