Discordant diagnosis of malaria in a family of child refugees from Sierra Leone

Abstract

The clinical presentation and diagnosis of malaria involving a family with seven children who arrived in Canada as refugees is reported. Discrepancies in front-line testing using microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests compared with confirmatory testing using real-time polymerase chain reaction in this cluster of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients were identified. ©2013 Pulsus Group Inc. All rights reserved.