Todd D Swarthout

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Publications

  1. ncbi Paracheck-Pf accuracy and recently treated Plasmodium falciparum infections: is there a risk of over-diagnosis?
    Todd D Swarthout
    Medecins Sans Frontieres, London, UK
    Malar J 6:58. 2007
  2. ncbi Multiple origins and regional dispersal of resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum malaria
    Richard J Pearce
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases, London, UK
    PLoS Med 6:e1000055. 2009

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Publications2

  1. ncbi Paracheck-Pf accuracy and recently treated Plasmodium falciparum infections: is there a risk of over-diagnosis?
    Todd D Swarthout
    Medecins Sans Frontieres, London, UK
    Malar J 6:58. 2007
    ..An assessment of the accuracy of Paracheck Pf, a malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) detecting histidine rich protein 2 was undertaken amongst children aged 6-59 months in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
  2. ncbi Multiple origins and regional dispersal of resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum malaria
    Richard J Pearce
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases, London, UK
    PLoS Med 6:e1000055. 2009
    ..To that end we have characterised the evolutionary origins of antifolate resistance mutations in the dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) gene and mapped their contemporary distribution...