Summary

Malaria is caused by a protozoan that invades human erythrocytes. Malaria is one the most prevalent diseases in the world. 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/Pan Rapid Test can rapidly detect antigen to plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich proteins II and antigen to pan-plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase that exit.