Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Performance [[electronic resource] ] : Results of WHO Product Testing of RDTs: Round 1 (2008)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141259903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2009
• ISBN: 92-4-068774-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (107 p.)
• Collana: Documents for Sale
• Altri autori (Persone): UNAIDS
• Disciplina: 616.075
• Soggetti: Malaria -- Diagnosis -- Evaluation; Malaria -- Microbiology; Plasmodium -- Testing; Epidemiologic Research Design; Statistics as Topic; Equipment and Supplies; Protozoan Infections; Indicators and Reagents; Mathematical Concepts; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Phenomena and Processes; Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment; Epidemiologic Methods; Laboratory Chemicals; Parasitic Diseases; Diseases; Specialty Uses of Chemicals; Public Health; Quality of Health Care; Investigative Techniques; Environment and Public Health; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Chemical Actions and Uses; Health Care; Chemicals and Drugs; Sensitivity and Specificity; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; Malaria; Medicine; Health & Biological Sciences; Infectious Diseases
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. EXECUTIVE; 2. BACKGROUND; 3. OBJECTIVES; 4. MATERIALS AND METHODS; 5. DATA MANAGEMENT; 6. QUALITY ASSURANCE; 7. ETHICAL CONSIDRATIONS; 8. DATA ANALYSIS; 9. LABORATORY VERSUS FIELD-BASED MALARIA RDT EVALUATIONS; 10. RESULTS; 11. HEAT STABILITY; 12. EASE OF USE DESCRIPTION; 13. DISCUSSION OF KEY FINDINGS; 14. ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ENSURE QUALITY AND UTILITY OF RDT TESTING; 15. CONCLUSIONS; 16. REFERENCES; ANNEXES
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. This document reports on evaluations co-sponsored by the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) WHO-based Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). Testing was per