Surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy for hemozoin detection

• Main Author: Liew, Vanessa Wan Qi
• Other Authors: Liu Quan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68363
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Diagnosing malaria at the early stages of infection is very important as the disease, if left untreated, will quickly aggravate and become fatal upon manifestation of the first symptoms. For the detection of malaria, hemozoin, the by-product of the parasite’s digestion of erythrocytes, is often used...