Introduction: Malaria is a highly contagious disease. According to W.H.O., its cases are expected to increase due to climate changes. Despite eradication efforts, malaria still remains one of the most significant causes of morbidity and mortality in tropical and subtropical regions. Many different antimalarial regimens are used; however resistance is emerging to many of them. Purpose: This crit...

AIM To distinguish between patients with reactive lymphocytosis and those with malignant lymphoid proliferations, with particular reference to hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly and splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes. PATIENTS Forty-four patients, residents of the Ashanti region of Ghana that is hyperendemic for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, were studied. All patients had splenomega...

With the increased spread of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and mounting evidence of lack of efficacy and toxicity of alternative drugs, it has become extremely difficult to propose simple, widely applicable and uniformly acceptable recommendations for malaria chemoprophylaxis. With regard to specific drugs, it is clear that because of its toxicity amodiaquine should no lon...

The objective of this study was to report on a breakthrough of Plasmodium falciparum infection following a military exercise in central Kenya and the treatment regimens used. A series of case reports are presented from the three UK hospitals involved. Among 150 British soldiers who had been on exercises for five weeks in central Kenya, taking proguanil/chloroquine anti-malarial prophylaxis, sev...

Long-term malaria prophylaxis is hampered by a lack of standardization and compliance. Advice should be individually optimized to achieve a high degree of protection and compliance. Individual risk assessment takes into consideration the duration of stay in the endemic area, the individual exposure, the seasonal transmission rates, and the drug-resistance situation.Methods for prevention of exp...

Since the late 1970s pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (PS; FansidarTM Hoffman-LaRoche, Basel) has been used as first line therapy for uncomplicated malaria in the Amazon basin. Unfortunately, resistance has developed over the last ten years in many regions of the Amazon and PS is no longer recommended for use in Brazil. In vitro resistance to pyrimethamine and cycloguanil (the active metabolite of pro...

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