ArticleMalaria journal2025
A reason to celebrate in a time of uncertainty. Response to: Linblade et al. "Assessing the accuracy of the recording and reporting of malaria rapid diagnostic test results in four African countries-methods and key results".
Article in Malaria journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Age-Related and Seasonal Variation in Malaria and Other Causes of Fever and Their Association With Clinical Outcomes in Southern Angola: A Hospital-Based Study.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Article
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Abstract
Linblade and colleagues should be commended for their recent publication "Assessing the accuracy of the recording and reporting of malaria rapid diagnostic test results in four African countries: methods and key results." The authors missed an opportunity to assess those findings in the context of the past and recent history of malaria diagnosis and treatment. If viewed from such an historical perspective, there is reason to celebrate these findings and what they demonstrate about the success of country and global efforts to scale up diagnostic testing for malaria over the last 15 years.
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