False-positive Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests are Prevalent Among Children Under 5 Years of Age in Uganda
False-positive mRDTs are prevalent among under-5s in the 2018-19 Uganda MIS and lead to overestimates of community-level malaria prevalence. These results suggest that false-positive mRDTs may also contribute to misdiagnosis and unnecessary antimalarial use in clinical settings.
Authors
- Bonnie E. Shook‐Sa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-4047)
- Caitlin A. Cassidy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-4990)
- Amber Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-6961)
- Emily W. Gower (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1016-9910)
- Jessie K. Edwards (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1741-335X)
- Ross M. Boyce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9489-6324)
- Emily J. Ciccone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-8473)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf604
- Primary Topic
- Malaria Research and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00