BACKGROUND The importation of malaria to non-endemic countries remains a major cause of travel-related morbidity and a leading cause of travel-related hospitalizations. Currently they are three priority medications for malaria prophylaxis to West Africa: mefloquine, atovaquone/proguanil and doxycycline. We investigate the cost effectiveness of a partial reimbursement of the cheapest effective m...

abstract background: iran is one of the countries implementing indoor residual spraying (irs) for malaria control. deltamethrin (dlt) is one of the insecticides recommended by world health organization (who) for this program. irs is currently performed in sistan and baluchistan province as an area with unstable malaria situation and the highest prevalence of malaria in the country. dlt has been...

b a ckground : the present study was undertaken to compare the entomological situation by analyzing the blood meal of mosquitoes of canal irrigated and non-irrigated areas of bikaner in order to explore scientific information on the vector biology and malaria burden profile and to plan proper strategies for malaria control and eradication. methods : adult mosquitoes were collected and the abdom...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Epidemiological and entomological studies were undertaken in forest-fringed villages in Sonitpur district (Assam) bordering Arunachal Pradesh, India to assess the malaria situation. Blood smears (thick and thin) were collected from the fever cases through door-to-door survey. Both the blood smears stained with Giemsa were used for malaria parasite detection. Slide positi...

The main impetus for trying to understand immunity to malaria is the need to develop effective malaria vaccines. Despite years of knowing that humans can be immune to malaria the mechanisms underlying this immunity are yet to be properly understood. This is, in part, attributable to the complexity of the malaria parasite and its life cycle resulting in a complex parasite-host relation. The outc...

During 1982–85 many outbreaks of malaria were reported in Shahjahanpur and its adjoining districts. District authorities recorded 349 deaths due to malaria in Nigohi and Tilhar PHCs. Several focal outbreaks were also reported in Dadraul PHC. The situation was alarming and there was an urgent need to combat malaria in the district. Therefore, a field unit under IDVC project was established in Ja...

Anopheles arabiensis, together with Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto, are the most important vectors of human malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The malaria situation keeps worsening, with 1 to 3 million deaths a year, and alternative strategies are needed to decrease malaria transmission intensity. In this paper, we studied the population structure of An. arabiensis from three sample sites on the r...