Malaria: Diagnosis, indirect aspects

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Signs of haemolysis include yellow serum, dark urine while faeces have a normal colour, high LDH and low haptaglobin. Often there is also thrombocytopenia. Sometimes there is malaria pigment in white blood cells. The percentage of neutrophils containing malaria pigment is a measure of the severity of the situation (e.g. more than 15% is a high percentage). Monocytes which contain malaria pigment have little clinical prognostic value.

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