Loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification for asymptomatic malaria detection in challenging field settings: Technical performance and pilot implementation in the Peruvian Amazon

• Elisa Serra-Casas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Paulo Manrique,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Xavier C. Ding,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Freddy Alava,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Dirección Regional de Salud (DIRESA), Loreto, Peru

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• Anthony Gave,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Hugo Rodriguez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dirección Regional de Salud (DIRESA), Loreto, Peru

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• Juan Contreras-Mancilla,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Angel Rosas-Aguirre,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Research Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Niko Speybroeck,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Iveth J. González,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Anna Rosanas-Urgell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Dionicia Gamboa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dionigamboa@yahoo.com (DG); arosanas@itg.be (ARU)

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-5203

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• Dionicia Gamboa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Dionicia Gamboa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dionigamboa@yahoo.com (DG); arosanas@itg.be (ARU)

  Affiliations Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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