A rapid test for the qualitative detection of Malaria antigen in human whole blood. For professional in vitro test use only.

Malaria is a serious parasitic disease characterized by fever, chills, and anemia and is caused by a parasite that is transmitted from one human to another by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. There are four kinds of malaria that can infect humans: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae. In humans, the parasites (called sporozoites) migrate to the liver where they mature and release another form, the merozoites. The disease now occurs in more than 90 countries worldwide, and it is estimated that there are over 500 million clinical cases and 2.7 million malaria-caused deaths per year. At the present, malaria is diagnosed by looking for the parasites in a drop of blood. Blood will be put onto a microscope slide and stained so that the parasites will be visible under a microscope. The TELL ME FAST One-Step Malaria pf (HRP II) / pv (LDH) Antigen Detection Test Device (Whole Blood) contains a membrane strip, which is pre-coated with two monoclonal antibodies as two separate lines across a test strip.  One monoclonal antibody (test line 1) is specific to the P. falciparum histidine rich protein-2 (Pf HRP-2) and another monoclonal antibody (test line 2) is specific to the lactate dehydrogenase of the P. vivax species (pvLDH). Conjugate pad is dispensed with monoclonal antibodies conjugated to colloidal gold, which are specific to P. falciparum histidine rich protein-2 (Pf HRP-2) and specific to the lactate dehydrogenase of P. vivax. TELL ME FAST One-Step Malaria pf (HRP II) / pv (LDH) Antigen Detection Test Device (Whole Blood) is designed for the differential diagnosis between Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.