World Health Organization Evaluation Of Malaria Diagnostic Tests Finds Variation In Test Performance

New Kerala -- Geneva, Apr.24 : The largest-ever independent, laboratory-based evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria has shown that some tests on the market perform exceptionally well in tropical temperatures and can detect even low parasite densities in blood samples, while other tests were only able to detect the parasite at high parasite densities.

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