https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.1999.10894
IMMUNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF MALARIA AND NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PALEOPATHOLOGICAL STUDIES
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Today numerous new malaria diagnostic techniques are available. Some attempt (1) to improve the sensitivity and facilitate the execution of conventional light; microscopy by concentrating the parasites in the blood sample, by improving their visualization and detection by means of staining with fluorescent dyes, or by a combination of these approaches i.e. the quantitative huffy coat technique and the Kamamoto fluorochrome technique (2). All these methods vary in complexity and need sophisticated equipment, but none so far have been shown to have the wide applicability of light microscopical examination of Giemsa-stained blood films for malaria diagnosis. [...]
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