Matthijs Welkers (@flahless.bsky.social)

🧪New paper out! Together with parasitologists from AmsterdamUMC and Rijnstate hospital we tested a faster & safer way to diagnose malaria when VHFs can't be completely ruled out using Zymo tubes + LAMP -> no more need for full BSL-3 gear. Read more: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Enhancing safety of rapid and accurate malaria diagnosis in patients at risk for viral haemorrhagic fever - Malaria Journal Background Malaria and viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) have overlapping symptomatology, creating clinical and diagnostic challenges within, and in travellers returning from, co-endemic areas. Rapid and... https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-025-05377-8