Use of malaria rapid diagnostic test to identify Plasmodium knowlesi infection.

ABSTRACT: Reports of human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi, a monkey malaria, suggest that it and other nonhuman malaria species may be an emerging health problem. We report the use of a rapid test to supplement microscopic analysis in distinguishing the 5 malaria species that infect humans.

SUBMITTER: McCutchan TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2630758 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature