{UAH} MUK students design software that tests for malaria

Dr. Kipenji and folks;

 

This is where my inadequacies manifest themselves glaringly, so, from my ignorant point, I have a few observations/questions:

 

Firstly, I stand in awe of these youngters for coming up with this app. We need more of them to continue pursuing advanced studies along these lines.

 

But how accurate is this test for malaria if blood culture is not drawn and tested outstide the body? All along, I thought that to conduct a test that requires a culture, such as blood, saliva, urine or stool, a specimen of that required culture has to be cultivated and isolated. It's in this isolation that the specimen is then subjected to tests by way of adding contigents of reacting chemicals.

 

But here, our entrepid boys at MUK have come up with a portable app that is not even intrusive to the body!

 

I would also like to be educated more on how this app can accurately and specifically test for malaria when the body might have comparable virus in the blood stream.

 

Again, folks, like the inventor of this app, I do not like needles at all, and have less than minimum knowledge of medical treatment.

 

Pojim

 

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Fear-of-needles-prompts-students-to-design-software-test-malaria/-/688334/1922428/-/11ryrmd/-/index.html