Malaria Journal

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Investigating portable fluorescent microscopy (CyScope®) as an alternative rapid diagnostic test for malaria in children and women of child-bearing age

José C Sousa-Figueiredo1,2*, David Oguttu3, Moses Adriko3, Fred Besigye3, Andrina Nankasi3, Moses Arinaitwe3, Annet Namukuta3, Martha Betson1, Narcis B Kabatereine3 and J Russell Stothard1

Author Affiliations

1 WHO Collaborating Centre Schistosomiasis, Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK

2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK

3 Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box 1661, Kampala, Uganda

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Malaria Journal 2010, 9:245 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-245

Published: 27 August 2010

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Supplemental table. Prevalence (and CI95) and mean parasitaemia in adults and children detailed by location.

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