Health facility-based malaria surveillance: The effects of age, area of residence and diagnostics on test positivity rates
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The malaria test positivity rate (TPR) is increasingly used as an indicator of malaria morbidity because TPR is based on laboratory-confirmed cases and is simple to incorporate into existing surveillance systems. However, temporal tr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Malaria Journal |
| Online Access: | http://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/229 |