MALARIA: A GENERAL MINIREVIEW WITH REFERENCE TO EGYPT | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 46, Issue 1, April 2016, Page 35-48 PDF (8 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2016.88931 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| AHMAD MEGAHED AHMAD SALEH1; SAMIA MOHAMMAD ADAM2; ABEER MOHAMMAD ABDALLAH IBRAHIM1; TOSSON A. MORSY3 | ||||
| 1Military Medical Academy, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The majority of world's population-live in areas at risk of malaria transmission. Malaria is a serious Anopheles-borne disease that causes symptoms like the flu, as a high fever, chills, and muscle pain also, anemia, bloody stools, coma, convulsion, fever, headache, jaundice, nausea, sweating and vomiting. Symptoms tend to come and go in cycles. Apart from Anopheles vector, malaria could be transmitted nosocomial, blood transfusion or needle-stick injury Some types of malaria may cause more serious damage problems to heart, lungs, kidneys, or brain. These types can be deadly. The primary factors contributing to the resurgence of malaria are the appearance of drug-resistant strains of the parasite, the spread of insecticideresistant strains of the mosquito and the lack of licensed malaria vaccines of proven efficacy. In rare cases, people can get malaria if they come into contact with infected blood as in blood transfusion or needle-stick injury also nosocomial and congenital malaria was reported. This is a mini-review of malaria with information on the lethal to humans, Plasmodium falciparum, together with other recent developments in the field. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Egypt; Malaria; Diagnosis; Treatment; Travelling; Prevention | ||||
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