Javaid lqbal.
Malaria - an under diagnosed disease.
Pak J Pathol Jan ;7(4):29-32.

In a busy laboratory, the technicians are generally overworked and they are unable to spend the recommended time on each slide of malarial parasite (MP). On this assumption, 518 thin blood preparations for malarial parasites were screened at laboratatory of CMH Sialkot. It was observed that 43.8 % of positive slides were being reported as negative. The study showed that technicians are quite competent and they hardly report false positive but because of overwork they can not do justice to each slide. It was also observed that slides for MP are mostly requested on indoor cases when fever is prolonged. This study highlights the importance of spending enough time on each slide of MP.

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