ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2014
False-positive results for rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in patients with rheumatoid factor.
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- Ten years of monitoring malaria trend and factors associated with malaria test positivity rates in Lower Moshi.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Evaluation of PfHRP2 and PfLDH Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Performance in Assosa Zone, Ethiopia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Use of real-time multiplex PCR, malaria rapid diagnostic test and microscopy to investigate the prevalence of Plasmodium species among febrile hospital patients in Sierra Leone.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- Paper-based microfluidics for DNA diagnostics of malaria in low resource underserved rural communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
Four different rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria were evaluated by testing 82 healthy control patients, 89 Plasmodium vivax-infected patients, and 92 rheumatoid factor (RF)-positive nonmalaria patients. The false-positive rate ranged from 2.2% to 13% in RF-positive patients. High RF levels are associated with malaria RDT false positivity.
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