Philippe Gillet

Summary

Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine
Country: Belgium

Publications

  1. ncbi Test characteristics of two rapid antigen detection tests (SD FK50 and SD FK60) for the diagnosis of malaria in returned travellers
    Mirna Van der Palen
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 8:90. 2009
  2. ncbi Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test (CareStart Malaria HRP-2/pLDH (Pf/pan) Combo Test) for the diagnosis of malaria in a reference setting
    Jessica Maltha
    Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 9:171. 2010
  3. ncbi Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: Plasmodium falciparum infections with high parasite densities may generate false positive Plasmodium vivax pLDH lines
    Jessica Maltha
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 9:198. 2010
  4. ncbi Evaluation of the Palutop+4 malaria rapid diagnostic test in a non-endemic setting
    David P J van Dijk
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 8:293. 2009
  5. ncbi Evaluation of the rapid diagnostic test SDFK40 (Pf-pLDH/pan-pLDH) for the diagnosis of malaria in a non-endemic setting
    Jessica Maltha
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 10:7. 2011
  6. ncbi External quality assessment of malaria microscopy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Pierre Mukadi
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Nationalestraat 155 B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:308. 2011
  7. ncbi Prozone in malaria rapid diagnostics tests: how many cases are missed?
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Unit of Tropical Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:166. 2011
  8. ncbi Malaria rapid diagnostic kits: quality of packaging, design and labelling of boxes and components and readability and accuracy of information inserts
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Unit of Tropical Laboratory Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:39. 2011
  9. ncbi External quality assessment on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in a non-endemic setting
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 9:359. 2010
  10. ncbi Buffer substitution in malaria rapid diagnostic tests causes false-positive results
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 9:215. 2010

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Test characteristics of two rapid antigen detection tests (SD FK50 and SD FK60) for the diagnosis of malaria in returned travellers
    Mirna Van der Palen
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 8:90. 2009
    ..Two malaria rapid diagnostic tests were evaluated in a travel clinic setting: the SD FK50 Malaria Ag Plasmodium falciparum test (a two-band test) and the SD FK60 Malaria Ag P. falciparum/Pan test (a three-band test)...
  2. ncbi Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test (CareStart Malaria HRP-2/pLDH (Pf/pan) Combo Test) for the diagnosis of malaria in a reference setting
    Jessica Maltha
    Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 9:171. 2010
    ....
  3. ncbi Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: Plasmodium falciparum infections with high parasite densities may generate false positive Plasmodium vivax pLDH lines
    Jessica Maltha
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 9:198. 2010
    ..Previous observations of false positive Pv-pLDH test lines in P. falciparum samples incited to the present study, which assessed P. vivax-specific RDTs for the occurrence of false positive Pv-pLDH lines in P. falciparum samples...
  4. ncbi Evaluation of the Palutop+4 malaria rapid diagnostic test in a non-endemic setting
    David P J van Dijk
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 8:293. 2009
    ....
  5. ncbi Evaluation of the rapid diagnostic test SDFK40 (Pf-pLDH/pan-pLDH) for the diagnosis of malaria in a non-endemic setting
    Jessica Maltha
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences FHML, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Malar J 10:7. 2011
    ..The present study evaluated the SD Bioline Malaria Ag 05FK40 (SDFK40), a three-band RDT detecting Plasmodium falciparum-specific parasite lactate dehydrogenase (Pf-pLDH) and pan Plasmodium-specific pLDH (pan-pLDH), in a reference setting...
  6. ncbi External quality assessment of malaria microscopy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Pierre Mukadi
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Nationalestraat 155 B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:308. 2011
    ..abstract:..
  7. ncbi Prozone in malaria rapid diagnostics tests: how many cases are missed?
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Unit of Tropical Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:166. 2011
    ..The present study prospectively assessed its frequency for malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and Plasmodium falciparum samples in an endemic field setting...
  8. ncbi Malaria rapid diagnostic kits: quality of packaging, design and labelling of boxes and components and readability and accuracy of information inserts
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Unit of Tropical Laboratory Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:39. 2011
    ..The present study assessed malaria RDT kits for adequate and correct packaging, design and labelling of boxes and components. Information inserts were studied for readability and accuracy of information...
  9. ncbi External quality assessment on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in a non-endemic setting
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 9:359. 2010
    ..The present study reports the results of an external quality assessment (EQA) session on RDTs in a non-endemic setting...
  10. ncbi Buffer substitution in malaria rapid diagnostic tests causes false-positive results
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 9:215. 2010
    ..The present study assessed the effect of buffer substitution on the RDT results...
  11. ncbi Assessment of the prozone effect in malaria rapid diagnostic tests
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 8:271. 2009
    ..In this study, a panel of malaria RDTs was challenged with clinical samples with P. falciparum hyperparasitaemia (> 5% infected red blood cells)...
  12. ncbi Test characteristics of the SD FK80 Plasmodium falciparum/Plasmodium vivax malaria rapid diagnostic test in a non-endemic setting
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 8:262. 2009
    ..The present study assessed its performance in a non-endemic setting...
  13. ncbi Evaluation of the SD FK70 malaria Ag Plasmodium vivax rapid diagnostic test in a non-endemic setting
    Philippe Gillet
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 8:129. 2009
    ....
  14. ncbi Assessment of the knowledge of graphical symbols labelled on malaria rapid diagnostic tests in four international settings
    Veerle Hermans
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Unit of Tropical Laboratory Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:331. 2011
    ..abstract:..
  15. ncbi Rapid diagnostic tests as a source of DNA for Plasmodium species-specific real-time PCR
    Lieselotte Cnops
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine ITM, Antwerp, Belgium
    Malar J 10:67. 2011
    ..This study describes the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) as a source of DNA for Plasmodium species-specific real-time PCR...
  16. ncbi Seroprevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections and evaluation of the pre-donation screening performance at the Provincial Hospital of Tete, Mozambique
    Jocelijn Stokx
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Infect Dis 11:141. 2011
    ..The study objectives were to determine the seroprevalence of these TTIs among blood donors at the Provincial Hospital of Tete, Mozambique, and to assess the local pre-donation screening performance...