Abstract Background Malaria is one of the most prevalent and deadliest illnesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite recent gains made towards its control, many African countries still have endemic malaria transmission. This study aimed to assess burden at household level Kongo central province, Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), impact community participatory Water, Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Action p...

Conventional light microscopy has been the established method for malaria diagnosis. However, recently several nonmicroscopic rapid diagnostic tests have been developed for situations in which reliable microscopy may not be available. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a recently introduced ICT Malaria Pf/Pv test. This assay detects Plasmodium falciparum histidin...

Background and objectives: Viola odorata L. is a grassy plant that grows in the humid regions and has been used to treat liver diseases and complicated and tropical fevers in Iranian traditional medicine (ITM). V. odorata has cold and humid temperament while the temperament of fever which is the most important symptom of malaria is the opposite. Antimalarial a...

Chronic subdural hematoma (traumatic or spontaneous) is one of the commonly encountered neurosurgical emergencies. However, development of the same following malaria is an uncommon event. Spontaneous subdural hematoma following Plasmodium falciparum malaria has been reported in literature1–2. But, to date, no case of P. vivax associated with chronic subdural hematoma has been reported. We herei...

The OptiMAL test (Flow Inc., Portland, Oreg.), which detects a malaria parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) antigen, has not been evaluated for its sensitivity in the diagnosis of malaria infection in various epidemiological settings. Using microscopy and a PCR as reference standards, we performed a comparison of these assays with the OptiMAL test for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum and...