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Venezuelan Amazon

Assessment of routine malaria diagnosis in the Venezuelan Amazon

Author(s): 
W.G. Metzger, S. Vivas-Martínez, A. Giron, E. Vaccari, E. Campos, I. Rodríguez, E. Miranda, E. Terán, L. Olivo, M. Magris
Reference: 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 105, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 262-268
Contact email: 
mmagris6@hotmail.com

Expert microscopists blindly double-checked 1000 slides and 550 rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) (OptiMAL-IT®) from health posts (HP). For Plasmodium vivax, HP microscopy and OptiMAL-IT® showed sensitivies of 86% and 63%, respectively. For P. falciparum, HP microscopy and OptiMAL-IT® showed sensitivities of 68% and 89%, respectively.

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