Despite malaria control programs in recent years, malaria transmission has not been eliminated in Iran. Molecular techniques including PCR, which has proved more sensitive and specific than microscopic examination methods, help to detect infection in low levels of parasitemia and mixed infections. Main our objectives were setting up nested PCR for detection of malaria and evaluating PCR based o...

BACKGROUND In malaria-endemic areas, residents of modern houses have less malaria than those living in traditional houses. This study will determine if modern housing provides incremental protection against clinical malaria over the current best practice of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and prompt treatment in The Gambia, determine the incremental cost-effectiveness of the intervention...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of malaria infections among foreign migrant workers in Thailand. METHODS Giemsa-stained thin and thick blood films were prepared from blood samples of 294 foreign migrant workers recruited in the study. Microscopic examination of these blood films was performed for malaria detection. RESULTS Blood film examination revealed 1.36% malaria infections in th...

Swift diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in areas where the disease is not endemic is frequently complicated by the lack of experience on the side of involved laboratory personal. Diagnostic tools based on the dipstick principle for the detection of plasmodial histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP-2) and parasite-specific lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH), respectively, have become available for the...

Background. Malaria and typhoid fever remain the major cause of morbidity mortality in tropical subtropical countries. It is common today to see patients being concurrently infected or treated for two diseases. Objective. The aim present study was determine prevalence malaria, fever, their coinfection among febrile at Ngaoundéré Regional Hospital, Adamawa, Cameroon. Methodology. A cross-section...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in severe malaria infection. We evaluated factors associated with acute renal failure in severe malaria by comparing patients with severe malaria with and without ARF admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bangkok, Thailand. Nine hundred fifteen severe malaria patients were included in the study, of whom 195 had ARF...

Quantitation of malaria burden provides prognostic and disease monitoring information, vital for proper clinical management of patients. It may also be required to assess response to malaria vaccines or drugs in clinical trials. Accurate microscopic malaria diagnosis requires training and experience, and is therefore an obvious target for automation using digital image processing and analysis s...