Robinson Ndifrekeabasi Itek

Diagnostic Accuracy for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi: A Critical Appraisal of Culture, Serological and Molecular Methods

Robinson Ndifrekeabasi Itek, Sonrandein Ditimi Bodensibari & NDU Ijeoma Festa · South Asian Journal of Research in Microbiology · 2026

Typhoid fever remains a substantial cause of febrile illness and preventable death in settings with limited water and sanitation infrastructure, yet the laboratory confirmation of infection continues to rest on methods whose measured performance is unstable across populations, sp...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajrm/2026/v20i10528

Molecular and Genomic Malaria Diagnostics for Elimination and Resistance Surveillance: A Critical Narrative Review of Analytical Performance, Epidemiological Inference and Programmatic Translation

Robinson Ndifrekeabasi Itek & Evelyn Orevaoghene Onosakponome · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2026

Malaria control has become dependent on two technologies whose limitations are now well documented: light microscopy, which cannot reliably detect the low-density infections that sustain transmission, and antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests, whose principal target is being d...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/mrji/2026/v36i101789