A patient who has recently arrived from an endemic area presents with elevated body temperature, headache, chills, malaise, that is with the symptoms which are typical for a common cold. What laboratory tests are necessary to prove or to disprove the diagnosis of malaria?

Answer options

1. Study of lymph node punctate
2. Microscopy of blood smears
3. Urinalysis
4. Study of cerebrospinal fluid
5. Microscopy of bone marrow punctate

Explanation

Malaria parasites can be identified by examining under the microscope a drop of the patient’s blood, spread out as a “blood smear” on a microscope slide.