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Open Access | Duffy Negative Antigen Is No Longer a Barrier to Plasmodium vivax – Molecular Evidences from the African West Coast (Angola and Equatorial Guinea)

Submitted by Kabogo on June 23, 2011 - 07:02
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Cristina Mendes, Fernanda Dias, Joana Figueiredo, Vicenta Gonzalez Mora, Jorge Cano, Bruno de Sousa, Virgílio E. do Rosário, Agustin Benito, Pedro Berzosa, Ana Paula Arez
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PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(6): e1192
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In this study we demonstrated that P. vivax infections were found both in humans and mosquitoes, which means that active transmission is occurring.

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Open Access | Accuracy of an Immunochromatographic Diagnostic Test (ICT Malaria Combo Cassette Test) Compared to Microscopy among under Five-Year-Old Children when Diagnosing Malaria in Equatorial Guinea

Submitted by patrick sampao on August 25, 2010 - 14:49
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Author(s): 
José-Luis P., Maria R., et al.
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Malaria Research and Treatment, Volume 2010 (2010)
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The general results showed little concordance between the ICT test and microscopy (kappa = 0.28, se: 0.04). In Equatorial Guinea, the ICT Malaria Combo Cassette Test has proven to be an acceptable test to detect high P. falciparum parasitemias.

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