parasitemia
Sign in to savethumb | right | alt=A photomicrograph of a blood smear containing a macrogametocyte of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. | A photomicrograph of a blood smear containing a macrogametocyte of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia is the quantitative content of parasites in the blood. It is used as a measurement of parasite load in the organism and an indication of the degree of an active parasitic infection. Systematic measurement of parasitemia is important in many phases of the assessment of disease, such as in diagnosis and in the follow-up of therapy, particularly in the chronic p
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15,525 papers- Linking avian malaria parasitemia estimates from quantitative PCR and microscopy reveals new infection patterns in Hawai'i.International journal for parasitology · 2024
- Determining Theileria annulata parasitemia through qPCR in lactating cows of Odisha, - a theileriosis-endemic region of India.Animal biotechnology · 2022
- Use of Capillary Blood Samples Leads to Higher Parasitemia Estimates and Higher Diagnostic Sensitivity of Microscopic and Molecular Diagnostics of Malaria Than Venous Blood Samples.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2018
- Increased Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia in Non-splenectomized Saimiri sciureus Monkeys Treated with Clodronate Liposomes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
- MalariaCount: an image analysis-based program for the accurate determination of parasitemia.Journal of microbiological methods · 2007
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thumb | right | alt=A photomicrograph of a blood smear containing a macrogametocyte of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. | A photomicrograph of a blood smear containing a macrogametocyte of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia is the quantitative content of parasites in the blood. It is used as a measurement of parasite load in the organism and an indication of the degree of an active parasitic infection. Systematic measurement of parasitemia is important in many phases of the assessment of disease, such as in diagnosis and in the follow-up of therapy, particularly in the chronic phase, when cure depends on ascertaining a parasitemia of zero.
The methods to be used for quantifying parasitemia depends on the parasitic species and its life cycle. For instance, in malaria, the number of blood-stage parasites can be counted using an optical microscope, on a special thick film (for low parasitemias) or thin film blood smear (for high parasitemias).