Blood analyzing device for malaria analysis

摘要

A blood analyzing device (100) comprises a light source (120) arranged to generate light (40) of a wavelength at which a Hb species in a hemolyzed blood sample (30) has absorbance. A detector system (130) is arranged to detect output light (50) from the sample (30) and generate a Hb signal representative of an amount of the Hb species in the sample (30) and a parasite signal representative of an amount of malaria parasites in the sample (30). A processor (140) generates a red blood cell value based on the Hb signal and generates a parasitemia value based on the parasite signal and the red blood cell value. A display (160) displays the parasitemia value representing a percentage of the red blood cells that are infected by malaria parasites.