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Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
Synopsis

Association of Dengue Virus and Leptospira Co-Infections with Malaria Severity

Rajendra Mandage1, Charandeep Kaur1, Atreyi Pramanik1, Vinod Kumar2, Parul Kodan, Adarsh Singh, Sounak Saha, Shivam Pandey, Naveet Wig, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Manish Soneja, and Pragyan AcharyaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (R. Mandage, C. Kaur, A. Pramanik, P. Kodan, S. Pandey, N. Wig, R.M. Pandey, M. Soneja, P. Acharya); Nehru Shatabdi Chikitsalaya, Singrauli, India (V. Kumar); Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India (A. Singh, S. Saha)

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Table 4

Summary of detection of Plasmodium species by RDT, microscopy and PCR, India, July 2017–September 2018*

Parasites RDT, no. (%) Microscopy, no. (%) PCR, no. (%)
Plasmodium negative
 73 (71.7)
 90 (90.9)
 33 (33.3)
Plasmodium positive 26 (28.3) 9 (9.09) 66 (66.7)
P. falciparum 6 (6.06) 2 (2.02) 10 (10.1
P. vivax 14 (14.1) 7 (7.07) 34 (34.3)
P. ovale 0 0 0
P. malariae 0 0 0
P. knowlesi
 0
 0
 5 (5.05)
Mixed Plasmodium 1 (1.01) 0 17 (17.2)
Pan-Plasmodium 7 (7.07) 0 0

*Percentages are calculated out of all AFI samples (n = 99). RDT, rapid diagnostic test.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Work was conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

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