Prozone-like phenomenon in travellers with fatal malaria: report of two cases
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Case Report Prozone-like phenomenon in travellers with fatal malaria: report of two cases
Malaria diagnosis remains a concern in non-endemic countries, with rapid diagnosis being crucial to improve patients’ outcome. Rapid diagnostic tests have high sensitivity but they also have flaws and false-negative results that might jeopardize malaria diagnosis. Some falsenegative results might relate to a prozone-like effect. The authors describe two patients with false-negative rapid diagno...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1972-2680
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.5454