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SUBMITTER: Giacometti M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8292881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giacometti Marco M Milesi Francesca F Coppadoro Pietro Lorenzo PL Rizzo Alberto A Fagiani Federico F Rinaldi Christian C Cantoni Matteo M Petti Daniela D Albisetti Edoardo E Sampietro Marco M Ciardo Mariagrazia M Siciliano Giulia G Alano Pietro P Lemen Brigitte B Bombe Joel J Nwaha Toukam Marie Thérèse MT Tina Paul Fernand PF Gismondo Maria Rita MR Corbellino Mario M Grande Romualdo R Fiore Gianfranco Beniamino GB Ferrari Giorgio G Antinori Spinello S Bertacco Riccardo R
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20210513 14
Malaria remains the most important mosquito-borne infectious disease worldwide, with 229 million new cases and 409.000 deaths in 2019. The infection is caused by a protozoan parasite which attacks red blood cells by feeding on hemoglobin and transforming it into hemozoin. Despite the WHO recommendation of prompt malaria diagnosis, the quality of microscopy-based diagnosis is frequently inadequate while rapid diagnostic tests based on antigens are not quantitative and still affected by non-neglig ...[more]