Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance : results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs : round 1...
Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance : results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs : round 1...
Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance : results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs : round 1 (2008).
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Geneva : World Health Organization on behalf of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, c2009.
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NQ616.9362/4
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English
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Physical content
v, 98 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Contents
Executive summary -- Background -- Objectives -- Materials and methods -- Data management -- Quality assurance -- Ethical considerations -- Data analysis -- Laboratory versus field-based malaria RDT evaluations -- Results -- Heat stability -- Ease of use description -- Discussion of key findings --...
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Publisher
Geneva : World Health Organization on behalf of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, c2009.
Date Published
c2009.
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Summary
The largest-ever independent, laboratory-based evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria has shown that some tests perform exceptionally well in tropical temperatures and can detect even low parasite densities in blood samples, while other tests were only able to detect malaria at high parasite densities.The evaluation was co-sponsore...
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Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance : results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs : round 1 (2008).
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"Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, CDC".
Bibliography: p. 43.
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Also available online. On 17/06/2010 freely available from the WHO website at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241598071_eng.pdf.
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NQ616.9362/4
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74Vva24XPOlM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vva24XPOlM
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ISBN
9241598077
9789241598071
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616.9362075
MMS ID
991010230769702626
