Cerebral malaria is a severe manifestation of a parasitic infection caused by Plasmodium falciparum. The sequelae of this disease such as blindness, deafness, loss of motor function could be emotionally traumatic and physically disabling. We, therefore, present this case of an 8-year-old boy who presented with high-grade intermittent fever associated with multiple convulsions and prolonged coma...

Malaria is a contagious infectious disease that still threatening human life. morbidity when viewed by province shows Eastern Indonesia the area with highest Annual Parasite Incidence (API), namely Papua, West NTT, and Maluku. This concern for continued efforts to control eliminate malaria in these high malaria-endemic areas. There are many strategies help prevent, include possibility of innova...

Malaria remains the leading burden of disease in post-conflict Sierra Leone. To overcome the challenge of anti-malarial drug resistance and improve effective treatment, Sierra Leone adopted artemisinin-combination therapy artesunate-amodiaquine (AS+AQ) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria. Other national policy anti-malarials include artemether-lumefantrine (AL) as an...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 33-year-old man presented with left hypochondrium pain and high-grade fever for 1 week and generalized convulsions followed by persistent unconsciousness. 2.8 mg/dL. His coagulation profile showed an international normalized ratio of 2.4, along with severe...

Plasmodium falciparum is known for complications with a very high mortality. We report three cases in children of the same family, two of them developed ARDS, one of them died, the third child developed hemophagocytosis and one of them also had transient myocarditis, all unusual complications of falciparum malaria.

INTRODUCTION Studies on the molecular epidemiology of antimalarial resistance constitute a useful tool to understand the events underlying treatment failure and resistance in falciparum malaria in Colombia. Several authors have reported on the efficacy of some molecular markers to predict drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. The P. falciparum pfcrt gene has been widely characterized in thi...