Best Practices Infectious Diseases Rapid Diagnostic Testing 
Pediatric EM Morsels
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 44 (2021) 102196. Food and Drug Administration Approval of Artesunate for Severe Malaria: Enough to Achieve Best Practice? This is typically only widely available in endemic countries (Forgie 2022) More recently there has been a deletion in the Pfhrp 2/3 gene in some P. 16 Oct 2023.
Mind The Bleep
DECEMBER 16, 2023
Investigations EDTA blood (ie an FBC bottle) should be sent urgently for thick and thin films Most laboratories will also perform a rapid diagnostic test (lateral flow), which has quite good sensitivity for P falciparum and reasonable sensitivity for P vivax If the rapid test is negative, consider alternative differentials (e.g.
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