we aimed to evaluate the timeliness of reporting of malaria surveillance system and understanding the existing problems.the timeliness of malaria surveillance system of iran was evaluated in four provinces of iran including sistan & baluchistan, hormozgan, kerman (as provinces with local malaria transmission) and khuzestan (without local malaria transmission). in this descriptive-analytic cross...

abstract: introduction: neonatal malaria manifests most commonly as fever ,anemia, hepatospleenomegaly, jaundice, loosestools and poor feeding however hyperglycemia and hyperlipedemia associated with malaria is not mentioned in literature. case presenttion : a full term neonate was admitted in december, in n.i.c.u. as fever and anemia with spleenohepatomegaly ,his peripheral smear was positive ...

Abstract Background Malaria is an acute and chronic illness characterized by paroxysms of fever, chills, sweating, fatigue, anemia, and splenomegaly. Most malarial deaths occur in infants and young children.Anemia in malaria has diverse pathophysiologic mechanisms such as direct invasion of Red cells, In the following, we presented comparison of hematological aspects: children with Malaria an...

background: the ob­jective of this study was to find an appropriate approach to asymptomatic malaria in elimination setting through a systematic review. methods: a broad search was conducted to find articles with the words ‘malaria’ in their titles and ‘asymptomatic’ or ‘submicroscopic’ in their texts, irrespective of the type of study conducted. the cochrane, medline/pubmed, and scopus databas...

malaria remains a complex problem during the pregnancy, which threatens > 35 millions pregnant women every year. malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy results in accumulation of infected rbcs in the intervillous spaces causing severe alterations leading to the reduced materno-foetal exchanges. in this article we have revisited the current evidences of clinical implications and overall burden of mal...

the children aged under 5 years from vast african areas badly suffer from falciparum malaria and many of them die of this disease. therapeutic efficacy of anti-malaria drugs, especially pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (ps) and chloroquine (cq) to falciparum malaria is frequently evaluated and reported in recent 10 years. unfortunately, to date, these widespread materials and researches have not been ...

Introduction: In spite of public health level improvement in Iran, Malaria is still an important health problem in the southeast corner of the country. Mapping distribution of endemic diseases with their relations to geographical factors has become important for public health experts. This study was carried out to provide the distribution maps of the geographical pathology of Malaria in Iran wi...

background: the malaria early warning system is defined as the use of prognostic variables for predicting the occurrence of malaria epidemics several months in advance. the principal objective of this study was to provide a malaria prediction model by using meteorological variables and historical malaria morbidity data for malaria-en­demic areas in south eastern iran. methods: a total of 2002 l...

background over the past years, the malaria elimination program has considerably decreased the malaria indigenous cases and confined their incidence to the southeastern areas of iran encompassing 28 less developed counties with favorable transmission conditions. objectives the aim of the study was to investigate the effects of climatic and socioeconomic indicators on malaria transmission and to...