Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017
Comparision of Rapid Diagnostic Test kit versus Light Microscopy for Malaria Diagnosis in Children in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Cuttack City of Odisha,India
Dr Chandra Sekhar Mohapatra, Dr Sucharita Mohanty, Dr Ratish Chandra Bramha
Abstract :
Malaria is a common mosquito–borne disease and is one of the world’s major public health problems
contributing 243 million clinical cases and over a million deaths each year[1]. India leads the South East
Asia region in terms of malaria cases[2 ].Odisha state with 3.8% of India’s population accounted for 25%
of total malaria cases,more than 40 % of Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases and nearly 20–30% of
total malaria deaths in India[2 ]. It is characterized clinically by fever,rigor and chills and can be serious
illness in children and can be fatal especially Plasmodium falciparum(Pf) malaria.Early and accurate
diagnosis of malaria is essential for surveillance, proper management and prevention of death due to
malaria. Overlap of malaria symptoms with other tropical diseases like typhoid fever, respiratory tract
infections and viral infections impairs the specificity of presumptive diagnosis thereby encouraging
indiscriminate use of antimalarials in endemic areas.World Health Organization recommends prompt
diagnosis of malaria either by microscopic examination of blood smear or malaria rapid diagnostic
test(RDT) in all clinically suspected malaria cases before administering anti–malarial drugs in their
treatment[3].Diagnostic tests improves the overall management of feile patients and may also help to
reduce the emergence of drug resistance by reserving anti–malarial drugs for those who actually have
malaria.The rapid diagnostic test (RDT) is a quick and easy test when compared with microscopic
examination of blood smear which takes more time and require good quality microscopy and competent
technical expertise.Malaria rapid diagnostic tests having high sensitivity and negative predictive value
particularly for plasmodium falciparum malaria have the potential to significantly improve management
of malaria infections especially in children where Pf malaria could have been fatal.
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Dr Chandra Sekhar Mohapatra, Dr Sucharita Mohanty, Dr Ratish Chandra Bramha, Comparision of Rapid Diagnostic Test kit versus Light Microscopy for Malaria Diagnosis in Children in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Cuttack City of Odisha,India, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-11 | November-2017
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Dr Chandra Sekhar Mohapatra, Dr Sucharita Mohanty, Dr Ratish Chandra Bramha, Comparision of Rapid Diagnostic Test kit versus Light Microscopy for Malaria Diagnosis in Children in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Cuttack City of Odisha,India, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-11 | November-2017
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