CONTEXT Many US clinicians and laboratory personnel are unfamiliar with the diagnosis and treatment of malaria. OBJECTIVES To examine the evidence base for management of uncomplicated and severe malaria and to provide clinicians with practical recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in the United States. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Systematic MEDLINE search from 1966 to 2006 usi...

Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Army Medical Department,, Member of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal, Author of " China from a Medical point of view," ?c., ?c., 1866. London:?John Churchill and Son, Netv Burlington Strut, Calcutta :?Ii. C. Lepage ami Co. " The nation sympathises deeply with the result of a cattle ; the slaughter of a few hundreds by sword or hall excites the feelings t...

A dose regimen of artesunate and amodiaquine based on arm span- or age range (DRAAAS), derived from a study of 1674 children, was compared with standard dose regimen of the same drugs calculated according to body weight (SDRAA) in 68 malarious children. Children on DRAAAS received 0.8-1.0 of artesunate/kg and 0.9-1.2 times amodiaquine/kg compared with those receiving SDRAA. Parasite and fever c...

We report the clinical picture, treatment and evolution of a child with hyperreactive malarious splenomegaly treated outside the endemic area of malaria. The patient presented gross splenomegaly, proceeded from an area where malaria is endemic, showed increased immunoglobulins levels, high antimalarial antibody titres and hepatic sinusoidal lymphocytosis. The child did not return to an area whe...

Sir,?I hope you will allow me to .correct some mistakes made by Dr. Ince in his report on the recent epidemic of fever, in the Iiawulpindee Jail, published in your October number at page 272. In paragraph 27 of his report, he states that the opinion arrived at by Dr. Aitchison and myself, that the fever treated by us in 1871 was of a remittent (malarious) type, was founded upon the study of six...

wise of cobweb in the treatment of paroxysmal fevers. I therefore contribute my experience on this point. In 1859, Mr. Donaldson, of the Bengal Service, inserted a paper in the Indian Lancet, reporting very favourably of cobweb in intermittents. Wishing to try the experiment myself, I collected, when Civil Surgeon at Bhooj, a large quantity of clean cobweb, and prescribed it, as advised, in the...

drug resistance in malaria parasites is extending in the world particularly in chemical synthesized drugs such as 4- aminoquinolines and aminoalcoholes. employing herbal extracts is encouraged by who in the malarious areas. in this study, the effectiveness of ethanolic extract of artemisia aucheri individually and in combination with chloroquine, has been considered against chloroquine - sensit...

background: one of the most important enzymatic disorders that interact with malaria is deficiency of g6pd (gloucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase). this enzyme protects red blood cells from hydrogen peroxide and other oxidative damages. distribution of this enzyme deficiency usually accompanies with low level distribution of malaria disease in most malarious areas. so this hypothesis may be consid...