ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2020
Coronavirus-19 and malaria: The great mimics.
Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Clinical Evaluation of the Healgen Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test as a Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tool.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2025Article
- Attitudes and prevention towards malaria in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in urban community in Benin, West Africa.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on general health and malaria control in Ghana: a qualitative study with mothers and health care professionals.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Factors Affecting the Performance of HRP2-Based Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
- The emerging role of Deubiquitinases (DUBs) in parasites: A foresight review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Innovation in primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.Primary health care research & development · 2021Article
- Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Antibody Detecting Rapid Diagnostic Tests Show High Cross-Reactivity When Challenged with Pre-Pandemic Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Dengue Samples.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- PERSPECTIVE: SUSTAINING EFFECTIVE MALARIA CONTROL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine · 2021Article
- Addressing Africa's pandemic puzzle: Perspectives on COVID-19 transmission and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Review
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Abstract
The use of SARS-CoV-2 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits by some African countries for screening has raised serious concerns over their role in malaria areas. Coupled with a lack of adequate personal protective equipment and the scarcity of knowledge on the possible interaction between malaria and COVID-19 both in terms of presentations and shared symptoms, this has left many frontline health workers with fears and anxieties. Several anecdotal reports have already raised questions pertaining to possible false-positive COVID-19 results in proven malaria cases by use of SARS-CoV-2 RDT kits with huge costs to already constrained budgets. The report raises concerns on the use of SARS-CoV-2 kits in malaria areas in terms of cost, to prompt research, allay fears and guide policy during this pandemic and beyond.
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