Utilization of 18s ribosomal RNA LAMP for detecting Plasmodium falciparum in microscopy and rapid diagnostic test negative patients

• Enoch Aninagyei ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eaninagyei@uhas.edu.gh

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6489-167X

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• Adjoa Agyemang Boakye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Clement Okraku Tettey,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Kofi Adjei Ntiri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Greater Accra Region, Mayera-Faase Health Centre, Mayera-Faase, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8066-9182

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• Samuel Ohene Ofori,

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

  Affiliation Medical Laboratory Department, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

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• Comfort Dede Tetteh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Municipal Health Directorate, Ga West Municipal, Amasaman, Ghana

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• Thelma Teley Aphour,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Greater Accra Region, Ablekuma North Health Directorate, Accra, Ghana

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• Tanko Rufai

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ghana Health Service, Eastern Region, New Juaben South Municipal Health Directorate, Koforidua, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2450-5906

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