Human Plasmodium knowlesi Infection Detected by Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

Abstract

We describe a PCR-confirmed case of Plasmodium knowlesi infection with a high parasitemia level and clinical signs of severe malaria in a migrant worker from Malaysian Borneo in the Netherlands. Investigations showed that commercially available rapid antigen tests for detection of human Plasmodium infections can detect P. knowlesi infections in humans.

Keywords

• Plasmodium knowlesi
• antigen test
• malaria
• rapid diagnostics
• The Netherlands
• dispatch