Assessment of false negative rates of lactate dehydrogenase-based malaria rapid diagnostic tests for Plasmodium ovale detection.

• Main Authors: Jianxia Tang (Author), Feng Tang (Author), Hongru Zhu (Author), Feng Lu (Author), Sui Xu (Author), Yuanyuan Cao (Author), Yaping Gu (Author), Xiaoqin He (Author), Huayun Zhou (Author), Guoding Zhu (Author), Jun Cao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Currently, malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are widely used for malaria diagnosis, but test performance and the factors that lead to failure of Plasmodium ovale detection are not well understood. In this study, three pLDH-based RDTs were evaluated using cases in China that originated in Africa....