Local spread of malaria is rare but cases are growing. In 2023, 10 locally acquired cases were reported in patients who had not travelled outside the United States. Since the 1970s, rates of malaria ...

Researchers have developed devices to automate blood smears. Their devices, called autohaem smear and smear+, can consistently create high-quality smears equivalent to those created by human experts, ...

Diagnosis of malaria is made with the help of microscopic examination of the blood samples. The symptoms of malaria may resemble flu, gastroenteritis, typhoid, or other viral fevers. Thus fever and ...

The classic diagnostic tool used to identify malaria is Giemsa microscopy. The technique entails collecting a small sample of peripheral blood, typically from a finger prick, which is Giemsa stained ...

When malaria is diagnosed late, it initially results in temperature spikes.

One of the key steps in diagnosing or treating many bloodborne diseases is to perform a blood smear, where a drop of blood is spread across a microscope slide for analysis. It is critical the ...