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Evaluation of a High-Throughput Diagnostic System for Detection of HIV-1 in Dried Blood Spot Samples from Infants in Mozambique

Jani, Ilesh; Sebastian, Jennifer; Vubil, Adolfo; Subbarao, Shambavi; Bila, Dolce; Sousa, Amina; Mabunda, Nédio; Garcia, Albert; Ellemberger, Dennis; Ramos, Artur; Skaggs, Beth.
J. clin. microbiol; 50 (4), 2012
We performed a comparative analysis between Roche Amplicor HIV-1 DNA test and CAPTAQ assay for the detection of HIV in 830 dried blood spot (DBS) pediatric samples collected in Mozambique. Our results demonstrated no statistical difference between these assays. The CAPTAQ assay approached nearly 100% rep...
HIV Infections/diagnosis, HIV Infections/blood, Dried Blood Spot Testing/methods, Mozambique, HIV-1/genetics, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity
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A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings

Mabunda, samuel; Aponte, john j; Tiago, armindo; Alonso, pdro.
Malar. j. (Online); 8 (74), 2009
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
Malaria/epidemiology, Temperature, Sensitivity and Specificity, Blood/diagnostic imaging, Precautionary Principle, Prevalence, Plasmodium falciparum, Parasites/genetics, Microscopy, Logistic Models, Malaria/blood, Confidence Intervals, Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data, Infections, Age Groups, Fever/diagnosis, Cost of Illness, 32511/methods, Fingers/growth & development, Mozambique
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