The reliability of diagnostic techniques in the diagnosis and management of malaria in the absence of a gold standard.
The accuracy of techniques for the diagnosis of malaria are usually compared with optical microscopy, which is considered to be a gold standard. However, microscopy is prone to error and therefore makes it difficult to assess the reliability of other diagnostic techniques. We did a systematic review...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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