Modern Hematology Analyzers Are Very Useful for Diagnosis of Malaria and, Crucially, May Help Avoid Misdiagnosis

J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Nov;55(11):3303-3304. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01098-17.

Authors

Thomas Hanscheid¹, Martin P Grobusch²

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal t.hanscheid@medicina.ulisboa.pt.
² Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: algorithm; diagnosis; hematology analyzer; malaria.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Diagnostic Errors*
Hematology
Humans
Malaria*
Platelet Count