Robinson Ndifrekeabasi Itek

Molecular and Genomic Malaria Diagnostics for Elimination and Resistance Surveillance: A Critical Narrative Review of Analytical Performance, Epidemiological Inference and Programmatic Translation

Robinson Ndifrekeabasi Itek & Evelyn Orevaoghene Onosakponome · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2026

Malaria control has become dependent on two technologies whose limitations are now well documented: light microscopy, which cannot reliably detect the low-density infections that sustain transmission, and antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests, whose principal target is being d...