Evaluation of highly sensitive diagnostic tools for the detection of P. falciparum in pregnant women attending antenatal care visits in Colombia

• Autors principals: A. M. Vásquez (Autor), G. Vélez (Autor), A. Medina (Autor), E. Serra-Casas (Autor), A. Campillo (Autor), I. J. Gonzalez (Autor), S. C. Murphy (Autor), A. M. Seilie (Autor), X. C. Ding (Autor), A. Tobón Castaño (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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Abstract Background In low transmission settings early diagnosis is the main strategy to reduce adverse outcomes of malaria in pregnancy; however, microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are inadequate for detecting low-density infections. We studied the performance of the highly sensitive-RDT...