Malaria remains the most dangerous tropical disease for the French troops deployed overseas. In 2003, 768 cases in the French army were declared along with an increase of incidence of 400% in comparison with 2002, mainly due to the Licorne peacekeeping operation in Ivory Coast. In order to ensure fast diagnosis in the field, a rapid immunochromatographic test (NOW malaria test; Binax, Portland,...

To summarize the changing epidemiological characteristics of malaria in Zhejiang Province, China, we collected data on malaria from the Chinese Notifiable Disease Reporting System (NDRS) and analyzed them. A total of 2,738 malaria cases were identified in Zhejiang Province from 2005 to 2014, of which 2,018 were male and 720 were female. Notably, only 7% of malaria cases were indigenous and the ...

Malaria is endemic in 91 countries. Maximum mortality is associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and more than 8,00,000 deaths occur in children less than five years of age1. P. falciparum usually presents with severe or complicated malaria, which presents as fever, chills, shock, hepatic failure, renal failure, cerebral malaria and malarial sepsis. It leads to 100% mortality if left untr...

Malaria is a protozoan disease caused by the bite of a female anopheline mosquito which is infected by the protozoa Plasmodium. It is the world’s third-ranked infectious killer disease after HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis1. Currently, six species of Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. vivax, two sympatric species of P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi) are known to cause malaria2. Of these, P. vivax wa...

In the tropics malaria is a major killer, especially of young children in areas of intense transmission of Plasmodium fakiparum: there may be a million or more such deaths in Africa every year.' In parts of the world with no transmission of malaria (fig 1) returning travellers and visitors, infected elsewhere, continue to develop the illness. Twelve patients died of malaria in Britain in 1991; ...

In the September issue of this journal, performance of BinaxNOW for the diagnosis of malaria in a major U.S. academic medical center was reported (1). Herein, we report performance of this test in a second large academic medical center in the United States. BinaxNOW was introduced at our institution as a component of routine blood parasite examination along with thickand thin-blood-smear micros...

Malaria remains one of the major killers of humankind and persists to threaten the lives of more than one-third of the world's population. Given that human malaria can now be caused by five species of Plasmodium, i.e., Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale, and the recently included Plasmodium knowlesi, there is a critical need not only to augment global...