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Non-falciparum malaria infections in Uganda, does it matter? A review of the published literature
Malaria JournalBackground Plasmodium falciparum is the dominant malaria species in the sub-Saharan Africa and the main cause of severe disease and death. Notwithstanding, severe malaria and death due to non-falciparum infections have been reported, but at much lower ...
Mansour Ranjbar +1 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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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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Invasive Bacterial Co-infection in African Children with Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
, 2014 Severe malaria remains a major cause of pediatric hospital admission across Africa. Invasive bacterial infection (IBI) is a recognized complication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, resulting in a substantially worse outcome.
Maitland, Kathryn +4 more
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Acute seizures attributable to falciparum malaria in an endemic area on the Kenyan coast. [PDF]
, 2011 Falciparum malaria is an important cause of acute symptomatic seizures in children admitted to hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa, and these seizures are associated with neurological disabilities and epilepsy.
Kariuki, SM +31 more
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The treatment of falciparum malaria
Parasitology Today, 1988 Effective treatment for falciparum malaria has been available for over 300 years, and for most of this time physicians have argued over the best doses and the methods of administering antimalarial drugs. A reasonable consensus has since emerged on the treatment of uncomplicated malaria, but there is still disagreement over the management of severe ...
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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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Rapid antigen detection tests for malaria diagnosis in severely ill Papua New Guinean children: a comparative study using Bayesian latent class models. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Although rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have practical advantages over light microscopy (LM) and good sensitivity in severe falciparum malaria in Africa, their utility where severe non-falciparum malaria occurs is unknown.
Laurens Manning +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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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2017 We present case histories of four patients treated with artemether-lumefantrine for falciparum malaria in UK hospitals in 2015 to 2016. Each subsequently presented with recurrent symptoms and Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia within 6 weeks of treatment ...
C. Sutherland +14 more
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