Recently, medicinal plants have been the main source in treating malaria. Kaempferia galanga was investigated as an antioxidant, and anti-inflammation. In vivo study of K. had verified antimalarial for severe The objective this is to investigate chemoprophylactic effect, body composition, blood parameters against Plasmodium berghei. prophylactic effects were determined by employing (50; 100 200...

The pathogenesis of malarial anemia is incompletely understood. Hepcidin, a recently discovered peptide hormone, is a major regulator of iron metabolism and is thought to play a central role in the anemia of chronic inflammation. The specific aim of the study was to characterize the association between urinary hepcidin, hemoglobin, and parasitemia in 199 patients presenting for evaluation of Pl...

We report two methods of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for hemozoin detection in malaria infected human blood. In the first method, silver nanoparticles were synthesized separately and then mixed with lysed blood; while in the second method, silver nanoparticles were synthesized directly inside the parasites of Plasmodium falciparum. It was observed that the first method yields a s...

We herein present clinical findings of an Iriomote cat with Hepatozoon felis parasitemia. A male Iriomote cat was captured for ecological analyses three times from January 2010 to January 2011. Although this cat did not show any hematological abnormalities at the time of the first capture, H. felis parasitemia and increased serum creatine kinase levels were detected at the second and third capt...

background: parasites affect the health and productivity of birds. haemoproteus columbae occurs in pigeons widely in tropical and subtropical regions. the present investigation was concentrated on the prevalence of h. columbae and rate of para-sitemia in domestic pigeons in southwest of iran. methods: pigeons regimented in three groups, less than six months old, between six and twenty four mont...

BACKGROUND At present, only microscopic examination of stained thick and thin blood smears for malaria can differentiate clinically relevant asexual parasitemia from clinically irrelevant isolated gametocytemia. Microscopy is time consuming, labour intensive, and requires significant technical expertise to perform. Simple and rapid tests that can distinguish asexual from isolated sexual parasit...

the possible existence of equine piroplasmosis was investigated in the province of quezon, philippines. blood samples of 269 horses from selected municipalities of quezon province were gathered. parasitological test namely blood parasite examination was employed and the test yielded negative results for the presence of the parasite. similarly, polymerase chain reaction assay was performed using...

B-cell-deficient C57B1/6J mice (suppressed from birth with goat anti-mu) and controls (treated from birth with normal goat serum) were infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. There was a significant (P less than 0.01) decrease in duration of survival of the mu-suppressed mice compared with that of controls. Whereas both mu-suppressed and control mice had an initial rise in parasitemia of similar...