Current point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays, such as the home pregnancy test, rely on
proteins as detection units (eg antibodies) to sense for analytes. Glycans play a fundamental …

Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria use
antibodies to detect either HRP‐2 antigen or pLDH antigen, and can improve access to …

The critical role of the microbiology laboratory in infectious disease diagnosis calls for a
close, positive working relationship between the physician and the microbiologists who …

Malaria is caused by infection with protozoan parasites of the Plasmodium genus,
transmitted to humans by female anopheline mosquitoes. Plasmodia have adapted to a …

Global efforts to control malaria are more complex than those for other infectious diseases,
in part because of vector transmission, the complex clinical presentation of Plasmodium …

Malaria detection through microscopic examination of stained blood smears is a diagnostic
challenge that heavily relies on the expertise of trained microscopists. This paper presents …

There is an increasing need for highly sensitive and quantitative diagnostics at the point-of-
care. The lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) is one of the most widely used point-of-care …

Abstract Point-of-care (POC) tests offer potentially substantial benefits for the management
of infectious diseases, mainly by shortening the time to result and by making the test …

Background In settings where both Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection
cause malaria, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) need to distinguish which species is causing …

Accurate and immediate diagnosis of malaria is important for medication of the infectious
disease. Conventional methods for diagnosing malaria are time consuming and rely on the …