Resultados: 3

Malaria case management commodity supply and use by community health workers in Mozambique, 2017

Malar. j. (Online); 18 (47), 2019
Community health workers (CHWs) provide preventive care and integrated community case management (iCCM) to people with low healthcare access worldwide. CHW programmes have helped reduce mortality in myriad countries, but little data on malaria supply chain management has been shared. This project evaluat...

Multiplexing detection of IgG against Plasmodium falciparum pregnancy-specific antigens

PLos ONE; 12 (7), 2017
Background: Pregnant women exposed to Plasmodium falciparum generate antibodies against VAR2CSA, the parasite protein that mediates adhesion of infected erythrocytes to the placenta. There is a need of high-throughput tools to determine the fine specificity of these antibodies that can be used to identif...

Prozone in malaria rapid diagnostics tests: how many cases are missed?

Malar. j. (Online); 10 (166), 2011
Background: Prozone means false-negative or false-low results in antigen-antibody reactions, due to an excess of either antigen or antibody. The present study prospectively assessed its frequency for malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and Plasmodium falciparum samples in an endemic field setting. Met...