Comparison of Three Screening Test Kits for G6PD Enzyme Deficiency: Implications for Its Use in the Radical Cure of Vivax Malaria in Remote and Resource-Poor Areas in the Philippines.

Fe Espino,Jo-Anne Bibit,Johanna Beulah Sornillo,Alvin G. Tan,Lorenz von Seidlein,Benedikt Ley

Comparison of Three Screening Test Kits for G6PD Enzyme Deficiency: Implications for Its Use in the Radical Cure of Vivax Malaria in Remote and Resource-Poor Areas in the Philippines.

2016

Fe Espino
Jo-Anne Bibit
Johanna Beulah Sornillo
Alvin G. Tan
Lorenz von Seidlein
Benedikt Ley

Objective We evaluated a battery of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase diagnostic point-of-care tests (PoC) to assess the most suitable product in terms of performance and operational characteristics for remote areas.

Keywords:

Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
Immunology
Young adult
Enzyme deficiency
Internal medicine
Malaria vivax
Vivax malaria
Medicine
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
Environmental health
Malaria
mass screening
Primaquine
screening test
resource poor

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