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ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

Evaluation of Malaria Diagnostic Methods as a Key for Successful Control and Elimination Programs.

Afoma Mbanefo, Nirbhay Kumar

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Review in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Afoma MbanefoDepartment of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Nirbhay KumarDepartment of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0358-4924

Funding

Combination Vaccines to Interrupt Malaria TransmissionR01AI127544 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KUMAR, NIRBHAY · 2017 to 2020
$2.2M
MalariSense: Transdermal Bloodless and Reagent-Free Malaria DiagnosticsR01AI123115 · NIAID · MASIMO CORPORATION · PI D'ALESSANDRO, UMBERTO, KUMAR, NIRBHAY · 2016 to 2019
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127544NIH HHS R01 AI123115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) world malaria report for 2018, there were 228 million cases and 405,000 deaths worldwide. This paper reviews and highlights the importance of accurate, sensitive and affordable diagnostic methods in the fight against malaria. The PubMed online database was used to search for publications that examined the different diagnostic tests for malaria. Currently used diagnostic methods include microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests (RDT), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Upcoming methods were identified as loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA), isothermal thermophilic helicase-dependent amplification (tHDA), saliva-based test for nucleic-acid amplification, saliva-based test for

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malariamalaria controlmalaria diagnosismalaria eliminationmicroscopyPCRRDTresource-limited settings

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PMID32575405
PMCPMC7344938

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