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Prompt diagnosis and timely initiation of intensive anti-malarial chemotherapy are the mainstays for effective management of malaria. Besides, it is necessary to initiate adjuvant therapy to control the illness's symptoms to obtain symptomatic relief and better patient outcomes. As we know, malaria is one of the dreadful vector-borne infections affecting millions of humans worldwide. It is a protozoal infection caused by plasmodium transmitted to humans via the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. Malaria is highly prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries, with millions of death recorded every year.

 

 

As we know, microscopic examination and rapid tests on blood specimens from malaria suspects are widely used for clinical confirmatory for malaria. However, recent studies show that malaria can be effectively diagnosed by non-blood testing such as saliva, buccal mucosa, and urine samples isolated from the suspected patients. Since blood collection via invasive phlebectomy can be inconvenient for the patients with an increased risk of adverse effects like pain and bruising, hematoma, nerve damage at the puncture site. Besides, it can also cause dizziness and sometimes fainting. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for an alternative non-invasive malaria test. Furthermore, lack of adequate infection control or faulty sample collection techniques can also result in microbial infection at the site of needle injury, which can increase patient suffering. Also, the fear of pricking can keep people away from malaria screening during an outbreak.

 

To address this scenario, non-invasive laboratory testings of saliva and urine samples nowadays are gaining more interest. Like rapid blood tests, testing on saliva and buccal mucosa, urine samples can also detect plasmodial antigens and DNA guiding clinical diagnosis of malaria. Therefore, such non-invasive malarial tests avoid the pricking discomfort, reducing patient suffering and easing the samples collection from malaria suspects. Therefore, saliva and urine tests can be better alternatives to boost malaria screening in the predisposed population. However, active research is progressing across the globe to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of these saliva-based and urine-based rapid diagnostic tests.

 

 

Good news for researchers! https://www.centralbiohub.de/  offers millions of high-quality saliva and urine samples and thereby accelerates research on non-invasive rapid diagnostic tests on malaria. The samples are ethically sourced from consented malaria suspects and patients of different ages, gender and ethnicities and well preserved at the biobanks.

 

Check out the world's largest inventory of urine samples https://centralbiohub.de/Biospecimens/Specimen-Matrix/Urine-Samples  for easy online procurement of malaria research samples. Central BioHub is a global biospecimen marketplace tailored to the needs of researchers. Therefore, all ordered research samples are delivered by renowned carriers to your facility at the earliest.