Malaria is a disease activated by type of microscopic parasite transmitted from infected female mosquito bites to humans. fatal that endemic in many regions the world. Quick diagnosis this will be very valuable for patients, as traditional methods require tedious work its detection. Recently, some automated have been proposed exploit hand-crafted feature extraction techniques however, their acc...

OBJECTIVES At the end of the chapter, the learner should be able to: 1. Define the terms flagged and reflex test as they pertain to automated hematology results. 2. Describe the importance of maintaining competency in morphological identification. 3. List justifications for performing a manual morphology review. 4. List the steps in the performance of a peripheral blood smear examination. 5. Id...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate laboratory performance on blood smear examination among public and private health laboratories. MATERIAL AND METHOD External Quality Assessment Scheme (EQAS) for blood smear examination was organized by the Department of Medical Sciences. The scheme was run in 2005 by sending out six blood smears with normal and various abnormal types of blood cells. Participants were from ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The present study was undertaken to find out a new easy method in the diagnosis of malaria by centrifuged buffy coat smear, which was found to be a feasible and reasonable procedure. METHODS Blood samples collected from 120 patients suspected of malaria were subjected to all three diagnostic modalities-peripheral blood smear (PS), centrifuged buffy coat smear (CBCS) an...