Comparative study of peripheral blood smear and quantitative buffy coat in malaria diagnosis.

Abstract

Malaria occurs throughout the tropics causing over 100 million cases and over 1 million deaths every year. The earliest symptoms of Malaria are very nonspecific and variable. Hence there is difficulty to clinically diagnose malaria but the treatment has to be started immediately in order to Comparative avoid complications. Therefore precise laboratory diagnosis and species identi1fication is essential