Malaria infection through multiorgan donation: an update from Spain.

Epidemiology of Malaria in Kashan

ABSTRACT Every year in the city of Kashan various number of cases of malaria has been observed. Determination of the prevalence of the disease and the carriers in this area of the country can play a significant role in employing preventive measure as well as in managing logistic services. Through applying retrospective descriptive methods and based on the statistics reported from the Center o...

A prospective study on adult patients of severe malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and mixed infection from Bikaner, northwest India.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Description of severe vivax malaria and mixed species infection requires good clinical study. The present study was undertaken to evalute the characteristics of severe malaria patients in Bikaner, northwest India. METHODS This prospective study included 539 admitted adult patients of severe malaria (Plasmodium falciparum 274, P. vivax 221, and mixed infection of Pv + P...

Loss of ability to self-heal malaria upon taurine transporter deletion.

Deletion of the taurine transporter gene (taut) results in lowered levels of taurine, the most abundant amino acid in mammals. Here, we show that taut-/- mice have lost their ability to self-heal blood-stage infections with Plasmodium chabaudi malaria. All taut-/- mice succumb to infections during crisis, while about 90% of the control taut(+/+) mice survive. The latter retain unchanged taurine...

An update on current concepts of the epidemiology of bovine Pestivirus infection in cattle

Malaria--still unconquered.

T mere mention of malaria evokes visions of the devastating effects of this still unconquered disease. Just how much damage it inflicts is highlighted by a recent observational study of the natural history of complicated falciparum malaria reported in this issue1 of the journal. The authors found cerebral malaria, jaundice and renal failure as the most common combination of multiorgan dysfuncti...