A favorable climatic condition for transmission of malaria prevails in Kokrajhar district throughout the year. A sizeable part of the district is covered by forest due to which dissimilar dynamics of malaria transmission emerge in forest and non-forest areas. Observed malaria incidence rates of forest area, non-forest area and the whole district over the period 2001-2010 were considered for ana...

BACKGROUND The human landing catches is the gold standard method used to study the vectors of malaria and to estimate their aggressiveness. However, this method has raised safety concerns due to a possible increased risk of malaria or other mosquito-borne diseases among the mosquito collectors. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of malaria attacks among mosquito collectors and ...

To cite: Parikh MP, Krishnan S, Ganipisetti VM, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014205820 DESCRIPTION A 29-year-old African-American woman presented with acute onset of altered mental status. She was obtunded with visible rigors and a fever of 102.8°F. Routine laboratory study showed platelet count of 59k/mm. Urine toxicology screening, blo...

Malaria is the major parasitic infection in many tropical and subtropical regions, leading to more than one million deaths (principally young African children) out of 400 million cases each year (WHO world health report 2000). More than half of the world's population live in areas where they remain at risk of malaria infection. During last years, the situation has worsened in many ways, mainly ...

The technical capability to perform a correct diagnosis of malaria infection is of the outmost importance in several settings, not only in endemic countries, for clinical, epidemiological and research purposes. Due to the practical nature of this Handbook, which is addressed to health workers in the field, this chapter will mainly concentrate on bedside simple technology to perform an adequate ...

b a ckground : the present study was undertaken to compare the entomological situation by analyzing the blood meal of mosquitoes of canal irrigated and non-irrigated areas of bikaner in order to explore scientific information on the vector biology and malaria burden profile and to plan proper strategies for malaria control and eradication. methods : adult mosquitoes were collected and the abdom...

Abstract Background Accumulating evidence suggest that compromised CYP2D6 enzyme activity caused by gene mutation could contribute to primaquine failure for the radical cure of vivax malaria. The current study aims preliminarily reveal association between recurrence malaria in Yunnan Province and analysing polymorphisms entire coding region human gene. Methods Blood samples were collected from ...

Dear Sir Malaria with estimated annual global mortality from 700,000 to 2.7 million, caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly Plasmodium species prevails mainly in Africa (1,2). The pleomorphic clinical outcomes display a remarkable range of disease from acute primary stages to complicated clinical presentations, depending on the transmission intensity, age, immunity and genetic backgro...

Plasmodium falciparum malaria is responsible for over 250 million clinical cases every year worldwide. Severe malaria cases might present with a range of disease syndromes including acute respiratory distress, metabolic acidosis, hypoglycaemia, renal failure, anaemia, pulmonary oedema, cerebral malaria (CM) and placental malaria (PM) in pregnant women. Two main determinants of severe malaria ha...

Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria causes 200 million cases worldwide, 8 million being severe and complicated leading to ∼1 million deaths and ∼100,000 abortions annually. Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) has been implicated in cytoadherence and infected erythrocyte rosette formation, associated with cerebral malaria; chondroitin sulphate-A attachment and infected e...