Background & Aims: Anopheles stephensi is one of the most important malaria vectors in Hormozgan province, southern Iran. This species with high density has an effective role in malaria transmission, especially in plain and coastal areas. At present, the country malaria vector control program in areas with local transmission is using deltamethrin 5% and Bacillus thuringiensis as insecticide ...

Introduction: During its life cycle, malaria parasite has to traverse successfully through widely diverse environmental milieu of mosquito mid gut, RBC cytosol and human circulatory system where it is exposed to dramatic changes of extracellular milieu in terms of pH, osmolarity and ionic constituents. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the possible changes in the cations (Na+, K+,...

Pendahuluan: Malaria merupakan masalah kesehatan di seluruh dunia. Pada tahun 2020, hampir setengah dari populasi dunia berisiko terkena malaria. Melihat permasalahan tersebut maka peneliti tertarik untuk melakukan studi literatur review tentang “Eliminasi Berbagai Negara: Literature Review”. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah melihat Faktor apa saja yang berperan dalam program eliminasi malaria berb...

background since iran is one of the malaria endemic areas, diagnosis of this disease is important. although the microscopic study of stained peripheral blood smears is as a gold standard of malaria diagnosis, this method requires a microscope, the equipment, and trained people. because of some problems associated with microscopic method in some situations, rapid diagnostic test (rdts) can be a ...

background : the aim of the study was to identify the prevalence of different species of plasmodium and haplotypes of pfcrt in plasmodium falciparum from the selected area. methods : overall, 10,372 blood films of suspected malarial patients were examined microscopically from rural health center sinawan, district muzaffargarh, pakistan from november 2008 to november 2010. p. falciparum positive...

a field trial was carried out in the chabahar district of sistan and baluchistan province, southeastern iran on the efficacy of mosquito nets treated with a suspension formulation of deltamethrin (k-o thrin®) against malaria vectors. treated nets were used in three villages, and in the two control villages, one used untreated nets and the other used indoor spraying with deltamethrin (wp 10%), w...

Malaria is a public health problem in tropical regions. The Regional Health office has program to educate residents about what malaria disease is, how reduce infection and who have no immunity or little malaria, such as young children pregnant women even knowledge malaria. overall Si Sa Ket prevalence was still high the Khun Han district, with P. vivax at 74.0 % falciparum 24.5%. Most of them w...

BACKGROUND Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are used widely in the diagnosis of malaria. Although the effectiveness of RDTs for malaria has been described in many previous studies, the low performance of RDT particularly for Plasmodium ovale malaria in traveller has rarely been reported. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study conducted on Japanese travellers diagnosed with malaria at the ...