Contribution of P. falciparum parasites with Pfhrp 2 gene deletions to false negative PfHRP 2 based malaria RDT results in Ghana: A nationwide study of symptomatic malaria patients

• Linda Eva Amoah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Eva Amoah, Benjamin Abuaku

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lek.amoah@gmail.com

  Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1652-8489

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• Benjamin Abuaku ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Eva Amoah, Benjamin Abuaku

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Epidemiology, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Abagna Hamza Bukari,

  Roles Methodology

  Current address: School of Life Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

  Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Donu Dickson,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Eunice Obeng Amoako,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Dept. of Epidemiology, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• George Asumah,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Accra, Ghana

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• Alexander Asamoah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Accra, Ghana

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• Nana Yaw Preprah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Accra, Ghana

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• Keziah Laurencia Malm

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Accra, Ghana

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