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PLoS Medicine, 2008 BackgroundThe efficient allocation of financial resources for malaria control using appropriate combinations of interventions requires accurate information on the geographic distribution of malaria risk.
Carlos A Guerra +6 more
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Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient with Complicated Falciparum Malaria [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Malaria is one of the most common protozoan diseases, especially in tropical countries. The clinical manifestation of malaria, especially falciparum malaria varies from mild acute febrile illness to life threatening severe systemic complications ...
Bhupen Barman +4 more
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Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background The aim was to assess factors affecting disease severity in imported P. falciparum and non-falciparum malaria. Methods We reviewed medical records from 2793/3260 (85.7%) of all episodes notified in Sweden between 1995 and 2015 and performed ...
Andreas Wångdahl +6 more
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Protection against Plasmodium falciparum malaria by PfSPZ Vaccine.
JCI Insight, 2017 BACKGROUND: A radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) sporozoite (SPZ) malaria vaccine, PfSPZ Vaccine, protected 6 of 6 subjects (100%) against homologous Pf (same strain as in the vaccine) controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) 3 weeks after ...
J. Epstein +46 more
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HIV Malaria Co-Infection Is Associated with Atypical Memory B Cell Expansion and a Reduced Antibody Response to a Broad Array of Plasmodium falciparum Antigens in Rwandan Adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 HIV infected individuals in malaria endemic areas experience more frequent and severe malaria episodes compared to non HIV infected. This clinical observation has been linked to a deficiency in antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum antigens ...
Krishanthi S Subramaniam +9 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Malaria is well-known as one of the most common causes of fever among travelers returning from endemic areas such as tropical African countries. However, afebrile Plasmodium falciparum malaria has rarely been reported in a returning traveler with no ...
Chaeryoung Lee +2 more
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The pathophysiology of falciparum malaria
Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2003 Falciparum malaria is a complex disease with no simple explanation, affecting organs where the parasite is rare as well as those organs where it is more common. We continue to argue that it can best be understood in terms of excessive stimulation of normally useful pathways mediated by inflammatory cytokines, the prototype being tumor necrosis factor ...
Clark, Ian A, Cowden, William
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Malaria Journal, 2017 Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for histidine rich protein 2 (HRP2) are often used to determine whether persons with fever should be treated with anti-malarials. However, Plasmodium falciparum parasites with a deletion of the hrp2 gene yield false-negative
C. Kozycki +7 more
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, 2001 Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world today, being the most important parasitic infection, and Plasmodium falciparum is the organism responsible for most of the mortality [1]. It has been estimated that approximately 300–500 million people contract malaria every year, with approximately 1–2 million deaths, most of these ...
Feldman, C., Richards, G. A.
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Evidence of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria in Africa.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2021 BACKGROUND In the six Southeast Asian countries that make up the Greater Mekong Subregion, Plasmodium falciparum has developed resistance to derivatives of artemisinin, the main component of first-line treatments for malaria.
B. Balikagala +14 more
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