In the last decade, there has been an upsurge of interest in developing malaria rapid
diagnostic test (RDT) kits for the detection of Plasmodium species. Three antigens …

Malaria diagnostics are widely used in epidemiologic studies to investigate natural history of
disease and in drug and vaccine clinical trials to exclude participants or evaluate efficacy …

Sažetak Introduction: Health laboratory services are a critical component of national health
systems but face major operational challenges in resource-limited (RL) settings. New …

Access to point-of-care testing (POCT) improves patient care, especially in resource-limited
settings where laboratory infrastructure is poor and the bulk of the population lives in rural …

Nucleic acid testing (NAT) for malaria parasites is an increasingly recommended diagnostic
endpoint in clinical trials of vaccine and drug candidates and is also important in …

Abstract Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are now widely used for laboratory
confirmation of suspected malaria cases to comply with the World Health Organization …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends parasitologic
confirmation of suspected malaria cases before treatment. Due to the limited availability of …

Introduction Internal and external quality control (QC) of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) is
important to increase reliability of RDTs currently used to diagnose malaria. However, cross …

Background The use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to diagnose malaria is common in sub-
Saharan African laboratories, remote primary health facilities and in the community …

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are widely used for malaria diagnosis, but lack of quality
control at point of care restricts trust in test results. Prototype positive control wells (PCW) …