Eighteen day old neonate presented with features of early neonatal sepsis. History of mother revealed a travel from non-endemic area of malaria to endemic area, and on the 7th gestational age mother detected as having malaria. She was treated with quinine and cured. Baby was also evaluated for congenital malaria in first few neonatal days and discharged. Now the baby on evaluation shows anemia,...

OBJECTIVE In Yemen, morbidity and mortality due to malaria is high. We explored malaria-related treatment seeking, prevention practices and knowledge of transmission amongst parents in order to inform health education strategies. Yemen is culturally very distinct from most malaria-endemic countries. We aimed to identify beliefs which may be barriers to malaria prevention and treatment, and hypo...

Malaria is considered one of the deadliest diseases in today world which causes thousands deaths per year. The parasites responsible for malaria are scientifically known as Plasmodium infects red blood cells human beings. transmitted by a female class mosquitos Anopheles. diagnosis requires identification and manual counting parasitized medical practitioners microscopic smears. Due to unavailab...

in o rder to stud v the possible use o r bhc against dln resistant a. stephensi mysorensis and with a view to determining the va lue of this insecticide in the control or malaria transmitted by th is vector, a field experiment (a rea sca le) was ca rried o ut in the khesht area. kazcroun, southern iran. during 1963. 32 vi llages with a population or 11 . 173 persons were sprayed wit h gamma-bhc...

introduction: increasing international travel to low-income areas is confronting travelers with new health threats. this study investigated international travelers’ health advice, behavior, and information needs in a low-income setting.methods: this is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. between october 27–31, 2014, 127 semi-structured surveys were conducted in jinja, uganda with internati...

AbstractSri Lanka has made remarkable gains in reducing the burden of malaria, recording no locally transmitted malaria cases since November 2012 and zero deaths since 2007. The country was recently certified as malaria free by World Health Organization in September 2016. Sri Lanka, however, continues to face a risk of resurgence due to persistent receptivity and vulnerability to malaria transm...