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Modern tools have made it easier to make population studies of the carriage of malaria. The classical, laborious “thick smear” which requires experience and is tedious; PCR-based methods are faster and more sensitive; a commercial test based on monoclonal antibody detection of circulating Plasmodium antigens is being used with very good results. The problem with these modern methods is that they are very highly priced for routine use in endemic countries.