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Malaria is a life-threatening disease, which is transmitted through the bite of a Plasmodium parasite infected Anopheles mosquito. Malaria Diagnosis is the process of determining the presence of the malaria parasite in the blood and different species of malaria parasite. As different species of malaria has two different treatment protocols, on the basis of diagnosis proper treatment will be given to patient. The bastion of malaria diagnosis has been the microscopic examination of blood, utilizing blood films (thin and thick smear). Although blood is the sample most frequently used to make a diagnosis, but in some cases both saliva and urine has been investigated as alternative, less omnipresent specimens. More recently, in the present we found that modern techniques utilizing antigen tests or polymerase chain reaction have been revealed, though these are not widely implemented in malaria endemic regions. But every technique has its merits and demerits but in present scenario the most important merit is specificity and sensitivity found to be highest in PCR.