Course Introduction | Overview | Plasmodium falciparum | Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale | Plasmodium malariae | Other infections | Tests
This course is designed to strengthen the malaria diagnostic competencies of laboratory technicians.
Because treatment and clinical management of the disease produced by each species of the malaria parasite may differ, and because epidemiological investigations often are required, it is necessary to identify and report the specific species found in the patient’s blood. Therefore the lab technician must be familiar with the appearance of each of the four species in stained blood film.
The four species known to infect humans are Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae.