Comparison of rapid diagnostic test Plasmotec Malaria-3, microscopy, and quantitative real-time PCR

The study tests the reliability of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) on two species of Malaria. The results found that despite it being used in Indonesia as a point-of-care tool, its negative ratio for P-vivax indicates that the RDT lacked sufficient discriminating exclusion power; falling below general acceptance criteria.

Liony Fransisca