ArticleTropical medicine and health2019
A validation study of microscopy versus quantitative PCR for measuring
Article in Tropical medicine and health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of the newly introduced and existing malaria tests in Northwest Ethiopia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Head-to-head comparison of two loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) kits for diagnosis of malaria in a non-endemic setting.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- PET-PCR reveals low parasitaemia and submicroscopic malarial infections in Honduran Moskitia.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Diagnostic performance of PfHRP2/pLDH malaria rapid diagnostic tests in elimination setting, northwest Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Analytical validation of a real-time hydrolysis probe PCR assay for quantifying Plasmodium falciparum parasites in experimentally infected human adults.Malaria journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
Microscopy and 18S qPCR are the most common and field-friendly methods for quantifying malaria parasite density, and it is important that these methods can be interpreted as giving equivalent results. We compared results of quantitative measurement of
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