The Para Sight-F test

Banchongaksorn, T.; Rooney, W.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 90(6): 718

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0035-9203
PMID: 9015530
Document Number: 466835
The correspondents comment on the abstract by Dowthwaite et al. (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1996) 90, 211) where the authors expressed the opinion that thick blood films remain the best method for diagnosing malaria. The correspondents agree that under good laboratory conditions, this may, in general be correct. However, they recommend that laboratories using standard thick blood film examination should use ParaSight-F for all patients with Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia, to allow an informed decision about treatment if HRP-2 (due to a P. falciparum infection) should also be present.

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