Malaria

Introduction: Malaria

Malaria: A parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Malaria is available below.

Symptoms of Malaria

• Mild early symptoms - in few days before major symptoms
• Cold stage:
  • Fever
  • Shaking
  • Chills

See full list of 26 symptoms of Malaria

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Malaria:

• Home Fever Tests
• Home Ear Infection Tests
• Home Flu Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about Malaria

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

• Travel history
• Blood smears
• Malaria antibody blood test

Read more about tests for Malaria

Wrongly Diagnosed with Malaria?

• Misdiagnosis of Malaria
• Underlying causes of Malaria (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Causes of Malaria

• Malaria (benign tertian)
• Malaria (malignant tertian)
• Plasmodium vivax
• Malaria (benign quartan)
• Plasmodium knowlesi

See full list of 6 causes of Malaria

Read more about causes of Malaria.

More information about causes of Malaria:

• Malaria as a complication caused by other conditions
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Malaria

Treatments for Malaria

• Hospitalization
• Chloroquine - cheapest and most commonly used drug but many new strains are resistant.
• Mefloquine
• Quinine
• Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination

See full list of 10 treatments for Malaria

Videos for Malaria

Patient Surveys for Malaria

• Patient Profile Survey
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• Survey about the symptoms of your Malaria
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Reseach about Malaria

Visit our research pages for current research about Malaria treatments.

Clinical Trials for Malaria

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Malaria include:

• PALUREA: Severe Imported Malaria in Adults - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Phase I/II Trial of a Malaria Vaccine in Adults Living in the United States of America. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• CS DNA MVA Trial in Mampong, Ghana - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• ACT With Chloroquine, Amodiaquine & Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine in Pakistan - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - SP,chloroquine,amodiaquine,primaquine,artesunate
• A Randomized Trial of Coartemether and Artekin for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Papua, Indonesia. - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Artekin / Coartemther

See full list of 193 Clinical Trials for Malaria

Prevention of Malaria

Prevention information for Malaria has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Malaria.

• Antimalarial drugs - e.g. chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine sulfate
  • Chloroquine
  • Mefloquine - for chloroquine-resistant areas
  • Doxycycline - for chloroquine-resistant areas
  • Fansidar (pyrimethamine/sulfadiazine combination)

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Statistics for Malaria

• Medical statistics for Malaria
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Malaria
• Death and Mortality statistics for Malaria
• Society statistics for Malaria

Types of Malaria

• Plasmodium falciparum - most common
• Plasmodium vivax
• Plasmodium malariae
• Plasmodium ovale
• Transfusion malaria

See full list of 17 Types of Malaria

Medical Guidebooks and Ebooks for Malaria

• Icon Health Sourcebook for Malaria

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Article Excerpts about Malaria

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Definitions of Malaria:

Protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the genus Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae) and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles; malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands; characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high fever, sweating, shaking chills, and anemia; malaria in animals is caused by other species of plasmodia. - (Source - Diseases Database)

An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Malaria is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Malaria, or a subtype of Malaria, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Malaria as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet