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

• Main Authors: A. M. Vásquez (Author), G. Vélez (Author), A. Medina (Author), E. Serra-Casas (Author), A. Campillo (Author), I. J. Gonzalez (Author), S. C. Murphy (Author), A. M. Seilie (Author), X. C. Ding (Author), A. Tobón Castaño (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...