A timed tally counter for microscopic examination of thick blood smears in malaria studies

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Grégory Nuel, André Garcia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2021
• Subjects: Malaria; Parasite density; Microscope; Quality control; Timed tally counter; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Buttons
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03530-z; https://doaj.org/article/4692d03cd1ae41999b6862625564cd75

Abstract Background Despite many technological advances for malaria parasite detection (e.g. high resolution image acquisition), microscopic reading of thick blood smear (TBS) remains the gold standard. Even though available in low technology environment, the microscopy of TBS is slow and time consu...