Evaluation of a malaria screening program was carried out in two screened Afghan refugee camps in Bardsir and Rafsanjan and compared to non-screened Afghan refugees within Kerman, as well as refugees with malaria diagnosed by Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Laboratories in Kennan and Rafsanjan, by parasitological blood examinations. The study involved 456 residents of two refugee camps ...

Abstract Background Hematological abnormalities are common features in falciparum malaria but vary among different populations across countries. Therefore, we compared hematological indices and between Plasmodium -infected patients malaria-negative subjects Kosti city of the White Nile State, Sudan. Methods A comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted at Clinical Laboratory Unit Teaching ...

BACKGROUND A prospective study on severe and complicated malaria was undertaken in the tribal dominated area of Bastar division, Chhattisgarh (CG), Central India, with an objective to understand the clinical epidemiology of complicated malaria in patients attending at a referral hospital. METHODS Blood smears, collected from the general medicine and pediatric wards of a government tertiary he...

BACKGROUND Odyssean malaria refers to malaria transmitted by translocated mosquitoes and is a diagnosis of exclusion, as the probability of finding the responsible vector is miniscule. We believe that road traffic from endemic areas in and around South Africa is the source of most of the infected mosquitoes. Because of the unexpected nature of the disease, diagnosis is often delayed and severe ...

Introduction: In the past 10 years, a declining trend was seen in the annual parasite incidence (API) of malaria in the Car Nicobar Island. For the past few years, the API in the island has been below one. Car Nicobar Island is struggling with malaria cases reported to have been brought from other, malaria-endemic islands. Methods: The movements of people...

In non-immune individuals, early diagnosis and treatment with appropriate antimalarials lead to recovery within few days. On the contrary, a late diagnosis and/or delayed therapy may lead to the development of various complications causing death. At present, complicated malaria is no more limited to anaemia, cerebral malaria or renal failure. Though it is conventional to describe various compli...

Plasmodium knowlesi has entered the human population of Southeast Asia. Naturally acquired knowlesi malaria is newly described with relatively little available data, including data on the host response to infection. Therefore pre-treatment cytokine and chemokine profiles were determined for 94 P. knowlesi, and for comparison, 20, P. vivax and 22 P. falciparum, patients recruited in Malaysian Bo...

Malaria contributes to significant morbidity and mortality in the developing countries of the tropics. World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated [WHO malaria news release, year 2010] that about 250 million cases of malaria occur every year worldwide, causing 8,60,000 deaths. Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum accounts for majority of complications and deaths due to malaria. The symptom...

Plasmodium falciparum, the commonest cause of severe malaria in children, is an important cause of mortality in developing nations like Nepal. Duodenal perforation in a case of complicated malaria, although a rare entity, can occur in children. Early diagnosis, proper medical treatment, and early surgical repair can be a lifesaving measure in such cases. Here, we report a case of a 5-year-old m...

The serum levels of procalcitonin (PCT) in Plasmodium falciparum malaria were evaluated for clinical significance in 66 nonimmune and semi-immune patients. Of the 66 patients, 36 had uncomplicated malaria, 24 had severe and complicated malaria, and 6 had fatal malaria (5 from previous studies). Pretreatment PCT concentrations were closely correlated with parasitemia. Concentrations were lowest ...