Evaluating the potential of using urine and saliva specimens for malaria diagnosis in suspected patients in Ghana.

Enoch AninagyeiJoseph AbrahamPaul AtiigaShadrach Duodu AntwiStephen BamfoDesmond Omane Acheampong

Published in: Malaria journal (2020)

Saliva, with or without blood contamination, was found to be more efficient that urine samples. Therefore these non-blood specimens have the potential to be used as non-invasive samples for malaria diagnosis. However, this approach is useful in severe to moderate anaemia, hyperthermia, parasitaemia > 60,000 parasites/µL and samples contaminated with blood.

Keyphrases

plasmodium falciparum
end stage renal disease
human health
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
risk assessment
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
pulmonary embolism
early onset
drug induced