# Point-of-care testing for malaria outbreak management
> Ratnawati

URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/point-of-care-testing-for-malaria-outbreak-management
Jurnal / Konferensi: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Tahun terbit: 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.018
ISSN: 00359203
Kuartil SJR: Q2
Citations: 11

## Authors
- Ratnawati

## Abstract
A rapid antigen assay for malaria was performed on blood samples collected during a simultaneous outbreak of falciparum malaria and vivax malaria on a remote island in the Indonesian archipelago. During the outbreak, a total of 89 patients (4.3% of the population) were diagnosed with malaria within a week. Microscopic examination revealed 78 malaria slide-positive cases, of whom 49 (62.8%) were identified as P. falciparum, 7 (9.0%) as P. vivax and 22 (28.2%) as mixed P. falciparum and P. vivax infections. The rapid malaria assay showed excellent correlation with expert-confirmed routine microscopy for P. falciparum and P. vivax monoinfections and mixed infections with a parasite density >50 parasites/microl. Several slide-negative blood samples collected from febrile patients with clinical malaria tested positive in the rapid test. The estimated sensitivity calculated for the rapid test (91.0%) was slightly higher than that of microscopy (87.6%). The result indicates that rapid antigen detection for malaria could be a useful alternative to microscopy to reduce the workload during emergency outbreak situations.

## Keywords
- Library science
- Malaria
- Tropical medicine
- Outbreak
- Medicine
- Family medicine
- Virology
- Pathology
- Computer science

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