Seevaratnam, Dushanth http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-8379
Ansah, Felix http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6928-2363
Aniweh, Yaw http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8415-2727
Awandare, Gordon A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-3641
Hall, Elizabeth A. H. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9572-9854
Article History
Received: 4 April 2022
Revised: 4 May 2022
Accepted: 12 May 2022
First Online: 3 June 2022
Declarations
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: Initial testing of the LAMP received approval from the Human Biology Research Ethics Committee (HBREC) Cambridge, approval HBREC.2019.10: (“Specific, Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Plasmodium Infection in Malaria Patients and mosquitoes by Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) and Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) assays”).Ethical approval to test blood samples in Ghana was obtained for Malaria patients who were undergoing a trial on Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (“The Effects of Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (Act) on The Dynamics of Plasmodium Falciparum, P. Malariae and P. Ovale Infections in Ghana” (GHS-ERC:005/12/17)). Patient samples were collected from Cape Coast (CC), Asikuma (ASK) and Baiden-Ghartey Hospital (BGH).Patient consent was obtained and the samples were anonymised providing only the regional testing location.
: The authors declare no competing interests.