van Hellemond JJ, Rutten M, Koelewijn R, Zeeman AM, Verweij JJ, Wismans PJ, Kocken CH, van Genderen PJJ. Human Plasmodium knowlesi infection detected by rapid diagnostic tests for malaria.
Emerg Infect Dis 2010;
15:1478-80. [PMID:
19788819 PMCID:
PMC2819855 DOI:
10.3201/eid1509.090358]
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Abstract
We describe a PCR-confirmed case of Plasmodium knowlesi infection with a high parasitemia level and clinical signs of severe malaria in a migrant worker from Malaysian Borneo in the Netherlands. Investigations showed that commercially available rapid antigen tests for detection of human Plasmodium infections can detect P. knowlesi infections in humans.
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