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Background Highly sensitive and accurate malaria diagnostic tools are essential to identify asymptomatic low parasitaemia infections. This study evaluated the performance of histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP-2) based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), microscopy and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for the detection of asymptomatic  Plasmodium  spp. infections in Northern Côte d’Ivoire, using nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) as reference. Methods A household-based survey was carried out in July 2016, in the health district of Korhogo, involving 1011 adults without malaria symptom nor history of fever during the week before recruitment. The fresh capillary blood samples were collected to detect  Plasmodium  infections using on HRP-2-based RDTs, microscopy and LAMP and stored as dried blood spots (DBS). A subset of the DBS (247/1011, 24.4%) was randomly selected for nPCR analyses. Additionally, venous blood samples, according to LAMP result (45 LAMP positive and 65 LAMP negative) were collected among the included participants to perform the nested PCR used as the reference. Results The prevalence of asymptomatic  Plasmodium  spp. infections determined by RDT, microscopy, and LAMP were 4% (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.8–5.3), 5.2% (95% CI 3.9–6.6) and 18.8% (95% CI 16.4–21.2), respectively. Considering PCR on venous blood as reference, performed on 110 samples, the sensibility and specificity were, respectively, 17.8% (95% CI 6.1–29.4) and 100% for RDT, 20.0% (95% CI 7.8–32) and 100% for microscopy, and 93.3% (95% CI 85.7–100) and 95.4% (95% CI 92.2–100) for LAMP. Conclusion In Northern Côte d’Ivoire, asymptomatic  Plasmodium  infection was found to be widely distributed as approximately one out of five study participants was found to be  Plasmodium  infected. LAMP appears currently to be the only available diagnostic method that can identify in the field this reservoir of infections and should be the method to consider for potential future active case detection interventions targeting elimination of these infections.

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Accuracy of a rapid diagnosis test, microscopy and loop-mediated isothermal amplification in the detection of asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in Korhogo, Northern Côte d’Ivoire