Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: challenges and prospects
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Malaria rapid diagnostic tests.
Global efforts to control malaria are more complex than those for other infectious diseases, in part because of vector transmission, the complex clinical presentation of Plasmodium infections, >1 Plasmodium species causing infection, geographic distribution of vectors and infection, and drug resistance. The World Health Organization approach to global malaria control focuses on 2 components: ve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Microbiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-2615,1473-5644
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.052506-0