We thank the National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India, for providing positive blood spots of
Plasmodium knowlesi.
Malaria, Infection, Prevalence, Aetiologic agents,
Plasmodium.
The study, presented at the iResearch 2018 of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, was the first to report deletion of two genes in
Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria-causing germ, in Nigeria.
Plasmodium vivax is responsible for the vast majority of malaria infections outside sub-Saharan Africa.
Afebrile malaria was observed commonly in pregnancy,
plasmodium falciparum malaria, patients at extremes of age, troops on chemoprophylaxis for malaria, recurrent infections of malaria, immune-compromised patients and patients with end stage organ failure1,5,6.
Inside an Anopheles gambiae mosquito,
Plasmodium undergoes a series of infection steps before reaching the mosquito's salivary gland, from which it spreads to bitten humans.
Awan et al noted in their investigation that the infection rate in male (7.18%) was found to be higher than in females (6.66%) which is contradictory to our findings.2 Among the 2,431 samples examined via RDT, 516 (21.22%) cases were confirmed by RDT's findings;
Plasmodium vivax was detected in 474 (91.86%)samples,
Plasmodium falciparum in only 17 (3.29%), while mixed infection of
Plasmodium vivax and
Plasmodium falciparum was found in 25 (4.84%)cases.
Infection of
Plasmodium falciparum develops severe malaria manifested by severe anaemia complication.
Tests for haemoparasites such as
Plasmodium are not routinely done; therefore, there is no data to describe asymptomatic malaria using donor blood in Eastern Uganda.
Key words: Malaria, Vaccine candidate gene, Polymorphism, AMA1,
Plasmodium vivax.
The phylum Apicomplexa contains primarily obligate intracellular parasites, most notably species including
Plasmodium, Babesia, Theileria, Toxoplasma, Eimeria, and Cryptosporidium.
Malaria is a Protozoal disease caused by infection with parasites of the genus
Plasmodium (Pl).M They are transmitted to humans by certain species of female Anopheline mosquito, which are infected!1) Five species of
Plasmodium (
Plasmodium Vivax,
Plasmodium Falciparum,
Plasmodium Ovale,
Plasmodium Malariae and
Plasmodium Knowlesi) cause malaria in humans.
