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Malaria diagnosis under field conditions in the Venezuelan Amazon
- Source :
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 102(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- To improve practical, accurate diagnosis of malaria in the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela, two rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) (OptiMAL-IT) and FalciVax) and a laboratory light microscope, used in the field with a battery-operated head lamp as an external light source, were evaluated against the standard laboratory microscope procedure for malaria detection. One hundred and thirty-six Yanomami patients were studied for the presence of malaria parasites. Thirty-three patients (24%) were positive for malaria (Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae). Twenty-one (64%) of the positive patients had
- Subjects :
- Quality Control
Plasmodium
Veterinary medicine
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium malariae
Parasitemia
Sensitivity and Specificity
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Humans
Microscopy
biology
Amazon rainforest
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Diagnostic test
Plasmodium falciparum
General Medicine
Venezuela
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Malaria
Diagnosis of malaria
Infectious Diseases
Parasitology
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
Field conditions
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18783503 and 00359203
- Volume :
- 102
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....df75bc168e32aae93aca867caefc72a3