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There are at least 300 million acute cases of malaria each year globally, resulting in more than a million deaths.
To assess disease severity, peripheral blood parasitemia is measured, but this is only a weak predictor of mortality in falciparum malaria.
In Kenya, approximately 26,000 children die each year from malaria, or about 72 per day [ 9 ] . In August 1998 the Government of Kenya changed its first-line anti-malarial treatment from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [ 10 ] . Amodiaquine was to be the second-line drug.
The sensitivity and specificity of spleen in detecting malaria infections were 57 and 74 % respectively (Table 2).
They conclude that quantitative measurements of plasma PfHRP2 in patients with falciparum malaria could be used to estimate the total parasite biomass, a parameter pivotal in the pathophysiology of the disease, and that this total parasite biomass is associated with clinical measures of the severity of the disease.