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Accurate malaria diagnosis hinges on detecting parasite-specific antigens in the blood. Notably, relapses are common in P. vivax and P. ovale infections, emphasizing the need for early identification of the infecting parasite. Transasia’s ErbaQik Malaria Pf/Pv Ag, Pf/PAN Ag and PAN Ag Rapid test kits, featuring dual-color band technology with unique Black Gold Particles, ensure easy interpretation. This innovative kit is effective for differentially diagnosing P. vivax and P. falciparum, especially crucial for identifying mixed infections. Learn more on https://zurl.co/jgEw https://zurl.co/Xsjf and https://zurl.co/oE8d or get in touch: 7304448818. #IAmTransasia #malaria #IVD #pathology #labmedicine #rapids

Accurate malaria diagnosis hinges on detecting parasite-specific antigens in the blood. Notably, relapses are common in P. vivax and P. ovale infections, emphasizing the need for early identification of the infecting parasite. Transasia’s ErbaQik Malaria Pf/Pv Ag, Pf/PAN Ag and PAN Ag Rapid test kits, featuring dual-color band technology with unique Black Gold Particles, ensure easy interpretation. This innovative kit is effective for differentially diagnosing P. vivax and P. falciparum, especially crucial for identifying mixed infections. Learn more on https://zurl.co/jgEw https://zurl.co/Xsjf and https://zurl.co/oE8d or get in touch: 7304448818. #IAmTransasia #malaria #IVD #pathology #labmedicine #rapids

EXCELLENT EPI TB PAPER!!!! The exceptionally high tuberculosis incidence among contacts in this Brazilian cohort suggests that greater efforts should be directed towards active and systematic evaluation of contacts in Brazil, especially adolescents, young adults, more socially vulnerable household contacts, and cohabitants from index patients younger than 5 years or with pulmonary tuberculosis. As preventive tuberculosis treatment is key to mitigate progression to tuberculosis disease, strengthening and expanding contact tracing could contribute to tuberculosis prevention and care in Brazil and other countries with a high burden of tuberculosis. A more efficient TB vaccine is highly needed!!!

While Charles Laveran was working at the military hospital, he observed pigmented granules in the samples isolated from diseased organs of patients with severe attacks of malaria and the blood samples of patients with chronic malaria. Further examination of the samples of these patients showed free and fixed pigmented bodies attached to the red blood cells and crescent-shaped pigmented bodies were observed from a pigment-carrying leukocyte called ‘melaniferous’. Melaniferous was discovered in 1846 (CDC, 2016b). Who is Charles Laveran? What was his contribution towards malaria? To answer these questions and know more about malaria, Get the book, THE STORY OF MALARIA: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. (Achieving Zero-Malaria By 2030). Available on Amazon, Okadabooks, and Selar.

The epic of the discovery of Laveran was on 6 November 1880, at Constantine Military Hospital, where he observed the blood sample of patients that presented with febrile illness for fifteen days. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) documented his observation as “on the edges of pigmented spherical bodies, filiform elements which move with great vivacity, displacing the neighbouring red blood cells” (CDC, 2016b). Culled from the book, THE STORY ABOUT MALARIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. (Achieving Zero-Malaria By 2030). To get more insight into the contribution of Laveran to the discovery of malaria, Get the book, On Amazon via this link: https://lnkd.in/d-NYZX89

Tuberculosis and the COVID-19 disease are somehow linked: they are both capable of putting a strain on the healthcare system, although in a different way. A second aspect in common concerns the importance of a timely and rapid diagnosis of the infection, as well as the need to raise public awareness, on which the containment of every epidemic depends. For the purposes of this study, despite the health emergency of recent years, all tuberculosis diagnostic activity was guaranteed in the Microbiology and Virology UOC of Cosenza with a higher number of isolations in the pandemic period. Finally, it is noted a marked inappropriateness of the request for tuberculosis diagnostics in the pre-covid period. #laboratorylife