Parasitological and molecular methods are mostly used to detect the infection.
Non-HLA candidate gene studies were less fruitful because they were mostly underpowered to detect modest effects and were frequently designed to investigate one or two functional polymorphisms, meaning that gene coverage was poor.
The small, handheld devices sense electric currents and are mostly used to detect issues with electrical wiring, but ghost hunters have adopted them as supposed ghost radar since the presence of spiritual beings causes weird electrical anomalies or something.
Indeed, only imaging methods are mostly used to detect or monitor tumor development.
Funnel plots and the Egger test were mostly used to detect publication bias.
The studies mentioned were mostly underpowered to detect small differences in infection rates, they had different designs precluding head to head comparison, and the observational setting may have caused selection bias which could go in either direction.
Two-band MRDTs are mostly designed to detect P. falciparum; they display a control line and a test line which targets either histidine-rich protein-2 (HRP-2) or P. falciparum-specific parasite lactate dehydrogenase (Pf-pLDH).
