Describing Chronic Malaria Infections

Malaria: old infections, changing epidemiology

The epidemiology of malaria has always varied between different parts of the world because of widely varying vectorial capacity. Mortality from malaria can be measured from clinical records or the rise of mortality during an epidemic, but better from observing the fall of mortality during control or from the population frequency of protective host genes. Holoendemic malaria may have doubled the...

Chronic Plasmodium falciparum infections in an area of low intensity malaria transmission in the Sudan.

Chronic Plasmodium falciparum malaria infections in a Sudanese village, in an area of seasonal and unstable malaria transmission, were monitored and genetically characterized to study the influence of persistent infection on the immunology and epidemiology of low endemicity malaria. During the October-December malaria season of 1996, 51 individuals out of a population of 420 had confirmed and t...

Mixed-species malaria infections in travelers.

Eosinophilic response to falciparum malaria infections.

Eosinophilia was a frequently detected incidental finding during a prospective study of malaria seroepidemiology in Thailand. Blood eosinophil counts were performed every 3 months for a year in 823 Thai soldiers on border guard duty in a malaria endemic area. Soldiers developing malaria were admitted to hospital and more frequent eosinophil counts were done. P. falciparum parasitemia suppressed...

P-53: Chronic Viral Infections and Infertility in Male

Background: The most common sexually transmitted diseases and the economic and social health problem throughout the world. However, vaccine coverage and antibiotic therapy and the development of programs to prevent and control major causes of acute and chronic diseases, pregnancy complications and infertility remains. Acute and chronic systemic viral infections can lead to infertility and perma...