ICT - A rapid, innovative but simple technique for malaria diagnosis

Early, proper and accurate diagnosis plays an important role in case of malaria. Usually malarial diagnosis is done using clinical criteria and/or microscopy. Immunochromatographic tests (ICTs) are now a days widely available and recognized as an alternative method for diagnosis of the malaria. In this study we performed microscopy i. e. Field’s stain and ICT with the help of ParaHIT Total for 897 samples, collected from various clinical laboratories of Valsad district, Gujarat, India.