Meta-analysis of the diagnostic performance characteristics of three commercial and one in-house nucleic acid amplification tests for malaria screening

Abstract

A meta-analysis of previously performed evaluation studies of nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT) approaches for the screening for and differentiation of Plasmodium spp. using identical samples was performed to comparatively assess their suitability for the routine diagnostic setting.

Keywords

• malaria
• nucleic acid amplification testing
• point-of-care testing
• screening
• species discrimination