Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. Malaria retinopathy is misdiagnosed in the clinical setting, leading to a failure to treat other life-threatening illnesses. Indeed, the problem can be severe and should be the focus in tropical ophthalmology. In this brief article, the author summarises and comment...

ing fact, viz., that in the same place under the same conditions some persons can have their large malarial spleens reduced to normal, while others develop them, points like many other facts to essential differences between the parasites producing the different forms of malaria. In Lower Bengal the infections are nearly always mixed, the clinical course irregular, and the parasite difficult to ...

Pediatric cerebral malaria carries a high mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa. We present our systematic analysis of the descriptive and quantitative histopathology of all organs sampled from a series of 103 autopsies performed between 1996 and 2010 in Blantyre, Malawi on pediatric cerebral malaria patients and control patients (without coma, or without malaria infection) who were clinically w...

tj ^Kopra (1933) has pointed out that berbenne, .^J^active principle of berberine-containing plants, has some remarkable properties in its behaviour towards the parasites of malaria. Its sulphate has been found to liberate the parasites into the peripheral circulation from the internal organs, so that, whereas blood films taken before the administration of berberine are negative, those taken af...

This paper investigates the possibility of rapid and accurate automated diagnosis of red blood cell disorders and describes a method to detect and classify malarial parasites in blood sample images acquired from light microscopes. As malaria is an infectious disease which is mainly diagnosed by visual microscopical evaluation of Giemsa stained blood smears. As it poses a serious global health p...

Many parasites show fidelity to a set of hosts in ecological time but not evolutionary time and the determinants of this pattern are poorly understood. Malarial parasites use vertebrate hosts for the asexual stage of their life cycle but use Dipteran hosts for the sexual stage. Despite the potential evolutionary importance of Dipteran hosts, little is known of their role in determining a parasi...

Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium spp. is considered to be a global threat, specifically for the developing countries. In human subjects considerable information exists regarding post-malarial physiology. However, most murine malarial models are lethal, and most studies deal with acute phases occurring as disease progresses. Much less is known regarding physiological status...

BACKGROUND Continuous emergence of multi-drug-resistant malaria parasites and their rapid spread across the globe warrant urgent search for new anti-malarial chemotherapeutics. Traditional medicinal plants have been the main sources for screening active phytochemicals against malaria. Accordingly, this study was aimed at evaluating the anti-malarial activity of Osyris quadripartita Salzm. Ex De...

Malaria complicating kala-azar That malaria may complicate kala-azar was recognized by the early workers on kala-azar in this country. Napier (1927) remarked that plasmodial and leishmanial infection must copyist in t.^e same r^fip-nt verv froouent.lv. but the occasions on which both parasites would be found in the same film of either peripheral blood or spleen puncture material were few. Malar...

Not many cases of phagocytosis of malarial parasites in peripheral blood are recorded. I wish to put on record two cases. The first was seen in 1943 in the blood smear of a soldier who was in an .unconscious state in I. M. H., Poona. Malignant tertian schizonts were seen phagocytosed by mononuclear cell, the picture simulating exactly the one given here : the case was fatal. The second case is ...