Malaria diagnosis and species differentiation
diarrhoea, myalgia, fever, reduction or loss of consciousness, malaria, back pain, parasitaemia, headache, chills, nausea, vomiting
MALARIA, UNCOMPLICATED MALARIA
Participants who presented with malaria symptoms were evaluated at the study clinic and had blood collected for microscopy. Uncomplicated malaria was defined as objective fever (temperature ≥ 37.5 °C) or history of fever within the past 48 h and/or other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, headache, back pain, chills, or myalgia, plus detection of any malaria parasites in blood by microscopy. Participants with danger signs such as reduction or loss of consciousness and difficulty breathing were referred to the hospital and not enrolled in the therapeutic efficacy study. Two trained microscopists identified and quantified malaria parasitaemia from thick blood smears and determined 