Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute Podcast: Malaria parasites mutate again to evade RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests

Malaria parasites mutate again to evade RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests

EPISODE #3 | 15 OCTOBER 2021

Results from a large study in Ethiopia showed that P. falciparum malaria parasites have mutated and have the worrisome ability to avoid being detected by the widely used rapid diagnostics tests, RDTs.