ArticleJournal of tropical medicine2018
Evaluating Malaria Prevalence Using Clinical Diagnosis Compared with Microscopy and Rapid Diagnostic Tests in a Tertiary Healthcare Facility in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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- Malaria diagnostic methods with the elimination goal in view.Parasitology research · 2022Review
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- Analysis of Epidemiological Changes and Prevention Effects for Malaria in Weifang, Shandong Province, China from 1957 to 2017.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Article
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- The Role of Sex in Malaria-COVID19 Coinfection and Some Associated Factors in Rivers State, Nigeria.Journal of parasitology research · 2020Article
- Concurrent infection of dengue virus with malaria parasites among outpatients attending healthcare facilities in Benin city, Nigeria.Porto biomedical journalArticle
- A Study of Childhood Malaria trends at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital: 2006 - 2018.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationArticle
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Abstract
The World Health Organization's policy on laboratory test of all suspected malaria cases before treatment has not yielded significant effects in several rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa due to inadequate diagnostic infrastructure, leading to high morbidity and mortality rates. A cross-sectional randomized study was conducted to evaluate the validity of clinical malaria diagnosis through comparison with microscopy and rapid diagnostic test kits (RDTs) using 1000 consenting outpatients of a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. Physicians conducted clinical diagnosis, and blood samples were collected through venous procedure and analyzed for malaria parasites using Giemsa microscopy and RDT kits. Microscopy was considered the diagnostic "gold standard" and all data obtained were statistically analyzed using Chi-square test with a
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