TY - JOUR AU - Maltha, Jessica AU - Gillet, Philippe AU - Cnops, Lieselotte AU - van den Ende, Jef AU - van Esbroeck, Marjan AU - Jacobs, Jan PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07/10 TI - Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: Plasmodium falciparum infections with high parasite densities may generate false positive Plasmodium vivax pLDH lines JO - Malaria Journal SP - 198 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Most malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detect Plasmodium falciparum and an antigen common to the four species. Plasmodium vivax-specific RDTs target P. vivax- specific parasite lactate dehydrogenase (Pv-pLDH). Previous observations of false positive Pv-pLDH test lines in P. falciparum samples incited to the present study, which assessed P. vivax-specific RDTs for the occurrence of false positive Pv-pLDH lines in P. falciparum samples. SN - 1475-2875 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-198 DO - 10.1186/1475-2875-9-198 ID - Maltha2010 ER -