A Comparative Study of Peripheral Blood Smear, Centrifuged Buffy Coat smear and Antigen Detection Test in Diagnosis of Malaria in Paediatric Population
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Even in this era of newly emerging deadly diseases malaria remains the most serious parasitic disease worldwide especially in the tropical and sub tropical countries. It is a serious, some time fatal, parasitic disease posing a major public health problem in India .The earliest symptoms of malaria are very non-specific and variable which poses International Journal of Pharma Research and Health Sciences
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