Closing the Brief Case: False-Positive Rapid Malaria Antigen Test Result in a Returned Traveler

Kristle L Haberichter¹, Paul C Johnson^{2

3}, Paul J Chittick^{2

3}, Peter Millward^{1

3}, Barbara Robinson-Dunn^{1

3}, Bobby L Boyanton Jr^{4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
² Department of Infectious Disease, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
³ Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA Bobby.Boyanton@beaumont.org.

Comment

Kristle L Haberichter et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;55(8):2560-2561.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.02349-16.

Kristle L Haberichter¹, Paul C Johnson^{2

3}, Paul J Chittick^{2

3}, Peter Millward^{1

3}, Barbara Robinson-Dunn^{1

3}, Bobby L Boyanton Jr^{4

3}

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
² Department of Infectious Disease, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
³ Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA Bobby.Boyanton@beaumont.org.

No abstract available

Keywords: BinaxNOW malaria; Plasmodium; parasitology; rapid antigen test.

Comment on

The Brief Case: False-Positive Rapid Malaria Antigen Test Result in a Returned Traveler.
Haberichter KL, Johnson PC, Chittick PJ, Millward P, Robinson-Dunn B, Boyanton BL Jr. Haberichter KL, et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Aug;55(8):2294-2297. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02347-16. J Clin Microbiol. 2017. PMID: 28743705 Free PMC article. No abstract available.