Epidemiological links between malaria parasitaemia and hypertension

Malaria in southern Thailand: relationship between parasitaemia and disease.

Treatment of Malaria Parasitaemia in Infants and their Mothers

Malaria is an infection sustained by three parasites namely: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium ovale. Plasmodium falciparum is the most common and virulent parasite. These parasites are present in different areas of the sub-Saharan African countries and Asia. In 2010, there were an estimated 219 million cases of malaria resulting in 660,000 deaths and, approximately, two-t...

Malaria parasitaemia in childhood diarrhoea in Nigeria

Records of 402 children--2l6 (53.7%) males and l86 (46.3%) females--aged 1-36 month(s), admitted to the Diarrhoea Treatment and Training Unit of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin city, Nigeria, during July 1993-June 1996, were reviewed to document the relationship between dehydration and malaria parasitaemia. There was a significant association between severity of dehydration and...

The relationship between malaria parasitaemia and availability of healthcare facility in Mpwapwa district, central Tanzania.

A study was carried out in six villages located at different altitudes in Mpwapwa district of central Tanzania to determine malaria parasitaemia and transmission levels in villages with or without health care facilities. A total of 1119 schoolchildren (age = 5.9-12.3 years) were examined for malaria parasitaemia. Plasmodiumfalciparum was the predominant malaria species accounting for 92.8% of a...

Lipid and lipoprotein levels in children with malaria parasitaemia

It is a common advice in the eastern region of Nigeria that anyone with high fever suspected to be malaria should not take much fatty meal. There is not yet definite biochemical reason for this. We assessed lipid profiles of twenty (20) children, aged between one and twelve years, suffering from malaria. Another fifteen (15) age-matched, uninfected children, were used as controls. Our parameter...