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 ...

Abstract Background In falciparum malaria the total parasite biomass can be estimated by blood levels of histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2), a Plasmodium falciparum-specific protein, which has been widely studied in malaria-endemic regions. This study investigates usefulness PfHRP2 as marker for disease severity imported malaria. Methods A retrospective cohort analysis was done 145 patients with...

One of the most fatal illnesses that affects humans is malaria. This study was aimed at determining haematological changes in pregnant malaria-infected women. hundred blood samples were taken from women between ages 15 and 45. Samples screened using standard methods. Out 100 examined, 28% had parasites whereas 72% did not. Based on age, 36 40 highest prevalence malaria during pregnancy (33.3%)....

We estimate the effect of large dams on malaria incidence in India between 1975 and 1995. combine instrumental variables approach with a panel model unobserved common factors allowing us to fully capture endogeneity dam location time-varying heterogeneity. Dams result increased districts where are located downstream areas. find that construction increases district’s annual by about 0.9 1.4 perc...

Abstract Africa continues to experience the highest infectious disease burden despite an increase in investments. These include investments malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, as well communicable diseases. The global targets are reduce of these diseases through improved surveillance, prevention outbreaks, effective case management, elimination and eventually, eradication. Achieving targets, howev...