Malaria is a significant disease that affects both animals and humans. The four main Plasmodium species cause human malaria are falciparum, vivax, malariae, ovale. knowlesi, parasite typically infecting forest macaque monkeys, was recently revealed to be able transmitted by anophelines provoke in This provides an increasing risk of spreading the areas previously unaffected with it people during...

Abstract Background Recent studies from different malaria-endemic regions including western Africa have now shown that Plasmodium vivax can infect red blood cells (RBCs) and cause clinical disease in Duffy-negative people, though the phenotype was thought to confer complete refractoriness against invasion with P. . The actual prevalence of local populations Ghana is unknown little information a...

BACKGROUND Botswana is one of eight SADC countries targeting malaria elimination by 2018. Through spirited upscaling of control activities and passive surveillance, significant reductions in case incidence of Plasmodium falciparum (0.96 - 0.01) was achieved between 2008 and 2012. As part of the elimination campaign, active detection of asymptomatic Plasmodium species by a highly sensitive metho...

This study was carried out to determine the incidence of malaria in an endemic region of Amazonas State, Venezuela. For this, 200 random samples were collected from symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals from San Fernando de Atabapo and Santa Barbara. Epidemiological factors were related to malaria infection, which was diagnosed by microscopy observation and amplification of the 18S rDNA sequ...

At a public hospital in Georgetown, Guyana, 44 patients seeking treatment for symptomatic, slide-confirmed malaria were given standard chloroquine (CQ) therapy and followed for 28 days. The patients apparently had pure infections with Plasmodium falciparum (14), P. vivax (13) or P. malariae (one), or mixed infections either of P. falciparum and P. vivax (17) or of P. falciparum, P. malariae and...

Malaria is a disease caused by parasites from genus Plasmodium , a member of the Apicomplexan family. Apicomplexans are unique in that they are the only fully parasitic large clade on the tree of life. It is thought that every type of mammal, bird, and reptile is parasitized by at least one species of Plasmodium (Morrison 2009 ) . Five Plasmodium species infect humans: Plasmodium falciparum , P...

Geographical position, an increasing flow of immigrants and refugees coming from regions where malaria is endemic might further increase those cases of malaria imported to Calabria due to travel on military missions, visiting relatives, business and leisure. However, few reports have been published regarding malaria imported into the southern Italian region of Calabria. Based on data from our l...

Malaria and HIV/AIDS are among the principal causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in resource international community’s efforts to reduce incidence and prevalence of these diseas a global public health problem. Clinical manifestations of malaria may be more severe in HIV infected patients, which have higher risks of severe malaria and malaria related death. Co pregnant wome...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis and treatment of malaria in non-endemic countries presents a continuing challenge. METHODS Medical records were reviewed for 291 patients hospitalized with microscopically confirmed malaria diagnosed consecutively in two infectious diseases wards in Milano, Italy, between 1998 and 2007. RESULTS One hundred eighty-six (64%) were male; median age was 35 y (range 16-72...