Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test to Identify Plasmodium knowlesi Infection

Abstract

Reports of human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi, a monkey malaria, suggest that it and other nonhuman malaria species may be an emerging health problem. We report the use of a rapid test to supplement microscopic analysis in distinguishing the 5 malaria species that infect humans.

Keywords

• Borneo
• lactate dehydrogenase
• malaria diagnostic
• monkey malaria
• mimetopes
• Plasmodium cynomolgi