An Analysis Of Malaria Diagnostic Methods - Microscopy And Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) In Gandhinagar – Gujarat
Malaria Diagnostic Methods - Microscopy And Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT)
Keywords:
Malaria, Rapid detection test, Microscopy, Malaria diagnosisAbstract
Background & Objective: Malaria is one of the major public health problems in the developing countries. Rapid diagnosis and accurate quantification of Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia are important forthe management of malaria. The objective of this study was to measure prevalence of malaria and analyse the results of malaria diagnostic methods. Methodology: RDT and microscopy was carried out to diagnose malaria. Results were simply presented as percentage positive of total number of cases under this study. Results of microscopy were compared with RDT based on antigen detection for malaria diagnosis. Results: Total 503 cases were detected having infection of malaria. Out of them 405(80.52%) were positive for P. vivax, 73 (14.51%) were positive for P. falciparum and 25 (4.97%) were having mixed infection of P. vivax and P. falciparum. Sensitivity of RDTs was excellent as compare to microscopy. Conclusion: We can conclude based on the present study that sensitivity of RDT is very good as compare to traditional microscopy. But for the confirmation microscopy remains gold standard test for malaria identification. [Patel P NJIRM et al 2015; 6(3):64-66]
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