Poor Accuracy of Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Misdiagnosis of Imported Malaria: Are PCR-Based Reference Laboratories the Answer?
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (2), 736-7
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.2.736-737.2002
Abstract
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