Malaria Diagnosis Page

In a typical busy clinic day with anxious and "very" symptomatic patients the last thing the doctor wants are delays in the lab test results. Malaria can be a very dramatic disease and it is usually incomprehensible to most patients the reason why the doctor waits for a malaria smear result, which may delay some hours or more depending on the laboratory work load when "he/she" the patient ,"knows" that the symptoms are those of malaria.

Very often the doctor is in agreement but, still , Lab diagnostic confirmation is necessary to treat the patient so the waiting goes on ,,,, not any more here comes OptiMAL !!!

OptiMAL test being administered to a willing patient :Many patients are "regulars" and "Veterans" of the Malaria test.

+/-,30 minutes have passed ,, ah ha !results are ready!!

Control line only	Negative test	( suggest repeat in 24 & 48 hours)
Control Line + One other line below	P vivax malaria.	Treat
Control Line + Two other Lines below	P falciparum malaria	Treat Fast !!

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