Detection through the use of RT-MqPCR of asymptomatic reservoirs of malaria in samples of patients from the indigenous Comarca of Guna Yala, Panama: Essential method to achieve the elimination of malaria

This study was carried out at the request of the National Malaria Program (NMP) of Ministry of Health MINSA of Panama (MINSA) and was approved by the Institutional Technical Committee of the NMP of MINSA (Note No. 147/DCV/DGSP/MINSA) and the Guna Yala Health Region (Note No. 25/DCV/DGS/MINSA/2016).