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Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Center for Clinical Management of Malaria, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. tmpwl@mahidol.ac.th
Plasmodium knowlesi morphologically resembles P. malariae; PCR assays are able to differentiate between the 2 species correctly. However, PCR is not available in many hospitals in P. knowlesi endemic areas, particularly in Southeast Asia. In places where PCR is not available, anti-malarial drugs for P. malariae or other non-P. falciparum or P. falciparum species are effective against P. knowlesi. Even with a wrong diagnosis of another malaria species by light microscopy instead of P. knowlesi, the antimalarial drugs given are still effective for treating P. knowlesi infection.
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