Assessment of Accuracy and Effectiveness of Rapid Diagnostic Test for Malaria Diagnosis at Primary Health Centres in Abeokuta Nigeria
A. Adebambo Olufunmilayo, Morenike Okeya Oluwatosin, Ayodele Samuel Babalola · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2015
Malaria is a deadly disease that needs proper and prompt diagnosis in order to treat its symptoms as early as possible.Rapid diagnosis test is a pre-requisite for the effective treatment of malaria in other to reduce the mortality and morbidity of the disease especially at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) facilities.This study compares RDTs test results from PHCs with malaria Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC) and microscopy test results.A total of 113 subjects with clinical signs of malaria were enrolled after obtaining consent of patients at the Primary Health Centres and questionnaires administered to assess awareness and use of RDTs kit.Storage and compliance to standards of usage of the Kits were observed.The results were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0.There was a significant difference (p<0.05) in sensitivity to malaria parasite between the three diagnostic methods as QBC was more sensitive compared with other diagnostic methods, while Microscopy was more sensitive compared with RDT kits.A total number of 86(76.1%),28(24.8%)and 39(34.5%)malaria positive cases were detected by QBC, RDT and Microscopy respectively.Out of the 86(76.1%)blood samples confirmed positive by QBC, 27(31.4%)and 38(44.2%)positive cases were detectable by RDT and Microscopy respectively.Furthermore, Microcopy detected 15(53.6%)