A guide for diagnostic evaluations.

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

2006 • 2,594 citations

Problems of Spectrum and Bias in Evaluating the Efficacy of Diagnostic Tests

1978 • 1,699 citations

The STARD Statement for Reporting Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy: Explanation and Elaboration

2003 • 1,046 citations

Diagnostics for the developing world

2004 • 970 citations

Towards Complete and Accurate Reporting of Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy: The STARD Initiative

2003 • 869 citations

Guidelines for Meta-analyses Evaluating Diagnostic Tests

1994 • 774 citations

Use of Methodological Standards in Diagnostic Test Research

1995 • 696 citations

Spectrum Bias in the Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests: Lessons from the Rapid Dipstick Test for Urinary Tract Infection

1992 • 262 citations

ParaSight®F Test Compared with the Polymerase Chain Reaction and Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Travelers

1997 • 222 citations

FALSE-POSITIVE RESULTS OF A PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM HISTIDINE-RICH PROTEIN 2–DETECTING MALARIA RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST DUE TO HIGH SENSITIVITY IN A COMMUNITY WITH FLUCTUATING LOW PARASITE DENSITY

2005 • 168 citations

Persistence of Plasmodium falciparum HRP-2 in successfully treated acute falciparum malaria

2001 • 166 citations

Sample sizes of studies on diagnostic accuracy: literature survey

2006 • 163 citations

Reliability of malaria microscopy in epidemiological studies: results of quality control

2000 • 142 citations

Performance of the OptiMAL malaria antigen capture dipstick for malaria diagnosis and treatment monitoring at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

2000 • 141 citations

Quality of Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

2005 • 136 citations

Comparison of a parasite lactate dehydrogenase-based immunochromatographic antigen detection assay (OptiMAL) with microscopy for the detection of malaria parasites in human blood samples.

1999 • 133 citations

Detection of thePlasmodium falciparumAntigen Histidine-Rich Protein 2 in Blood of Pregnant Women: Implications for Diagnosing Placental Malaria

1999 • 122 citations

Comparison of three antigen detection methods for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of malaria: a field study from southern Vietnam

2002 • 121 citations

Comparison of the ParaSight™-F test and the ICT Malaria Pf™ test with the polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in travellers

1998 • 121 citations

Comparative evaluation of four techniques for the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infections

1997 • 117 citations

Persistent ICT Malaria P.f/P.v Panmalarial and HRP2 Antigen Reactivity after Treatment of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Is Associated with Gametocytemia and Results in False-Positive Diagnoses of Plasmodium vivax in Convalescence

2001 • 112 citations

Stage-dependent production and release of histidine-rich protein 2 by Plasmodium falciparum

2005 • 111 citations

Detection of malaria parasites by nested PCR in south-eastern, Iran: evidence of highly mixed infections in Chahbahar district.

2002 • 106 citations

Non-microscopic method for malaria diagnosis using OptiMAL IT, a second-generation dipstick for malaria pLDH antigen detection

2002 • 105 citations

Field trials of health interventions in developing countries : a toolbox

1996 • 105 citations

External quality assessment schemes raise standards: evidence from the UKNEQAS parasitology subschemes

2003 • 84 citations

EVALUATION OF A MALARIA RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR ASSESSING THE BURDEN OF MALARIA DURING PREGNANCY

2004 • 82 citations

Use of Dipstick Tests for the Rapid Diagnosis of Malaria in Nonimmune Travelers

2006 • 82 citations

Diagnosis of malaria in a remote area of the Philippines: comparison of techniques and their acceptance by health workers and the community.

2001 • 76 citations

Mapping the landscape of diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections: key findings and recommendations.

2004 • 76 citations

Short Communication: An assessment of the use of malaria rapid tests by village health volunteers in rural Laos

2004 • 66 citations

Plasmodium falciparum:Evaluation of Lactate Dehydrogenase in Monitoring Therapeutic Responses to Standard Antimalarial Drugs in Nigeria

1997 • 66 citations

Malaria diagnosis by dipstick assay in a Honduran population with coendemic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.

1998 • 66 citations

Feasibility of a rapid dipstick antigen‐capture assay for self‐testing of travellers' malaria

1999 • 65 citations

Self-testing for falciparum malaria with antigen-capture cards by travelers with symptoms of malaria.

2000 • 62 citations

Systematic review of near patient test evaluations in primary care

1999 • 62 citations

Comparison of a rapid field immunochromatographic test to expert microscopy for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum asexual parasitemia in Thailand

1999 • 61 citations

MalaQuick™ versus ParaSight F® as a diagnostic aid in travellers' malaria

1999 • 57 citations

Application of the ParaSight™-F dipstick test for malaria diagnosis in a district control program

1999 • 54 citations

Performance of the OptiMAL assay for detection and identification of malaria infections in asymptomatic residents of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

2000 • 49 citations

Trial of the ParaSight‐F test for malaria diagnosis in the primary health care system, Zimbabwe

1997 • 49 citations

Comparison of blood-film microscopy, the OptiMAL® dipstick, Rhodamine-123 fluorescence staining and PCR, for monitoring antimalarial treatment

2000 • 41 citations

The hospital- and field-based performances of the OptiMAL test, for malaria diagnosis and treatment monitoring in central India

2003 • 38 citations

Evaluation of a rapid test for histidine rich protein 2 for diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Cameroonian children

1999 • 38 citations

Disappearance of pan-malarial antigen reactivity using the ICT Malaria P.f/ P.vTM kit parallels decline of patent parasitaemia as shown by microscopy

2000 • 37 citations

Epidemiologic tools for malaria surveillance in an urban setting of low endemicity along the Colombian Pacific coast.

2000 • 25 citations

A comparison of antigen dipstick assays with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and blood film examination in the rapid diagnosis of malaria.

1999 • 18 citations

Controlling Infectious Diseases

2011 • 17 citations

Near-Patient Tests in Primary Care: Setting the Standards for Evaluation

2000 • 17 citations

PLASMODIUM VIVAX VACCINE RESEARCH: STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

2005 • 13 citations

Comparison of a nested polymerase chain reaction – restriction fragment length polymorphism method, the PATH antigen detection method, and microscopy for the detection and identification of malaria parasites

2001 • 6 citations

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1955 • 0 citations