Diagnostic performance characteristics of rapid dipstick test for Plasmodium vivax malaria
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
;
96(5): 683-686, July 2001. ilus, tab
Artigo
em Inglês
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| ID: lil-289357
RESUMO
We compared the diagnostic performance characteristics of newly developed method, the rapid dipstick test, which provides colorimetric determination by developing antibody to the lactate dehydrogenase enzyme of parasites, with conventional standard thick-blood film examination. For the rapid test, OptiMAL commercial kits were used. The results were also evaluated with clinical findings from patients. The parasites were determined by microscopic examination of thick-blood films from 81 patients with vivax malaria from southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The OptiMAL test results were found to be negative in five patients who were diagnosed clinically and through thick-film testing as having vivax malaria. There was no false positivity observed with the OptiMAL test. We concluded that this rapid malaria test has a lower level of sensitivity than the classical thick-blood-film test for malaria, but that these methods have equal specificity
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Assunto principal:
Plasmodium vivax
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Malária Vivax
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Testes Hematológicos
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L-Lactato Desidrogenase
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Animais
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Assunto da revista:
Medicina Tropical
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Parasitologia
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Turquia
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Harran University/TR
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Mersin University/TR
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