Situation of malaria in forest-fringed villages of north Lakhimpur District, Assam.
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Published in Indian journal of malariology
About 110 patients were enrolled to study the atypical presentations and the chloroquine sensitivity pattern of Plasmodium vivax malaria. The diagnosis was made from Giemsa stained peripheral blood smear. The co-infection of falciparum malaria was excluded both by smear and ParaSight F-test. After a thorough clinical work up, biochemical investigat...
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Malaria endemicity in lower Myanmar has been studied to identify the causes for the prevalence of malaria in Yeasitkan village of lower Myanmar. Vector mosquitoes were collected by mosquito net in cattlesheds and in human dwellings (indoor and outdoor) by biting and catching procedure for the identification of species, insecticide susceptibility te...
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Published in Indian journal of malariology
In the present study, HLA associations among the cohort of 171 severe P. falciparum malaria patients were compared with that of 101 normal sex, age and ethnically matched control samples. All these individuals lived in Mumbai in an area of low and seasonal P. falciparum transmission. HLA A, B, DRB1 and DQB1 antigens were serologically (A and B) and...
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Various autoantibodies like anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-double stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA), anti-histone antibodies (AHA), anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO), anti-proteinase3 (anti-PR3) and anti-lactoferrin (anti-LF) antibodies were studied in 173 acute hospitalised patients suffering from malaria ...
Published in Indian journal of malariology
Published in Indian journal of malariology
A total of 37 species of mosquitoes belonging to nine genera--Anopheles, Aedes, Armigeres, Culex, Harpagomyia, Mansonia, Orthopodomyia, Toxorhynchites and Uranotaenia were collected from Little Andaman Island. Mosquitoes of nine Anopheles group of species--An. barbirostris, An. barbumbrosus, An. balabacensis, An. insulaeflorum, An. kochi, An. phili...
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The antimalarial activity of chloramphenicol, a broad-spectrum antibiotic was studied in three Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates having high or low sensitivity to chloroquine. The antimalarial activity was evaluated in 72 hours culture in the presence of various doses of chloramphenicol alone or in combination with a fixed dose of chloroquine a...
Published in Indian journal of malariology