SUMMARY

Malaria is caused by single-celled microorganisms of the plasmodium group, it’s normally spread by bites of mosquitos, and it’s an infectious disease that affects lives and life safety of human beings and other animals. Patients infected with malaria normally will have fever, fatigue, vomiting, headache and other symptoms, and severe cases may lead to xanthoderma, seizure, coma and even death. According to estimation of World Health Organization (WHO), there are 300~500 million cases of the disease and over 1 million deaths annually throughout the world. Timely and accurate diagnosis is the key to outbreak control as well as effective prevention and treatment of malaria. The commonly used microscopy method is known as the gold standard for diagnosis of malaria, but it highly depends on skills and experiences of technical personnel and takes relatively long time. Malaria (P.F) Rapid Test can rapidly detect antigen to plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich proteins II that exits in whole blood, which can be used for auxiliary diagnosis of plasmodium falciparum (pf) infection.