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From: Analysis of nucleic acids extracted from rapid diagnostic tests reveals a significant proportion of false positive test results associated with recent malaria treatment

Fig. 2

Rapid diagnostic test outcome in relation to Plasmodium falciparum parasite densities and qPCR amplification of human rnasep endogenous control. a Plasmodium falciparum parasite densities compared between true positive and false negative RDT outcomes. Parasite densities for P. falciparum were estimated based on the varATS target of the PlasQ RT-qPCR assay. Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the two groups. b Comparison of the Cq values obtained with the amplification of the human rnasep gene used as internal control of the PlasQ RT-qPCR assay, across all samples stratified by RDT outcome. The group of RDTs with a false-positive result was compared to the other RDT outcomes by Wilcoxon rank sum test

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Malaria Journal

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