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Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Aditya P Dash
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Open AccessAllelic dimorphism of Plasmodium vivax gam-1 in the Indian subcontinent
Genetic polymorphism is an inevitable component of a complex organism especially in multistage infectious organisms such as malaria parasites. Understanding the population genetic structure of the parasites wo...
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Open AccessA community-based health education programme for bio-environmental control of malaria through folk theatre (Kalajatha) in rural India
Health education is an important component in disease control programme. Kalajatha is a popular, traditional art form of folk theatre depicting various life processes of a local socio-cultural setting. It is an e...
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Open AccessCongenital malaria with atypical presentation: A case report from low transmission area in India
Malaria during first few months of life may be due to transplacental transfer of parasitized maternal erythrocytes. Although IgG and IgM antimalarial antibodies can be detected in maternal blood, only IgG anti...
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Open AccessGenetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum field isolates in eastern and north-eastern India
Molecular techniques have facilitated the studies on genetic diversity of Plasmodium species particularly from field isolates collected directly from patients. The msp-1 and msp-2 are highly polymorphic markers a...
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Open AccessSequence diversity and natural selection at domain I of the apical membrane antigen 1 among Indian Plasmodium falciparum populations
The Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) is a leading malaria vaccine candidate antigen. The complete AMA1 protein is comprised of three domains where domain I exhibits high sequence polymorphis...
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Open AccessPolymorphisms of TNF-enhancer and gene for FcγRIIa correlate with the severity of falciparum malaria in the ethnically diverse Indian population
Susceptibility/resistance to Plasmodium falciparum malaria has been correlated with polymorphisms in more than 30 human genes with most association analyses having been carried out on patients from Africa and sou...
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Open AccessDetermination of nitric oxide metabolites, nitrate and nitrite, in Anopheles culicifacies mosquito midgut and haemolymph by anion exchange high-performance liquid chromatography: plausible mechanism of refractoriness
The diverse physiological and pathological role of nitric oxide in innate immune defenses against many intra and extracellular pathogens, have led to the development of various methods for determining nitric o...
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Open AccessAntibody responses to the merozoite surface protein-1 complex in cerebral malaria patients in India
Plasmodium falciparum infection causes cerebral malaria (CM) in a subset of patients with anti-malarial treatment protecting only about 70% to 80% of patients. Why a subset of malaria patients develops CM complic...
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Open AccessThe usefulness of a new rapid diagnostic test, the First Response® Malaria Combo (pLDH/HRP2) card test, for malaria diagnosis in the forested belt of central India
Malaria presents a diagnostic challenge in tribal belt of central India where two Plasmodium species, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, are prevalent. In these areas, rapid detection of the malaria para...
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Open AccessAnti-malarial activities of Andrographis paniculata and Hedyotis corymbosa extracts and their combination with curcumin
Herbal extracts of Andrographis paniculata (AP) and Hedyotis corymbosa (HC) are known as hepato-protective and fever-reducing drugs since ancient time and they have been used regularly by the people in the south ...
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Open AccessFighting malaria in Madhya Pradesh (Central India): Are we loosing the battle?
Malaria control in Madhya Pradesh is complex because of vast tracts of forest with tribal settlement. Fifty four million individuals of various ethnic origins, accounting for 8% of the total population of Indi...
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Open AccessTherapeutic efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in uncomplicated falciparum malaria in India
Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is the treatment of choice for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. Artemether-lumefantrine (AL), a fixed dose co-formulation, has recently been approved for marketing ...
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Open AccessLarvicidal activity of neem oil (Azadirachta indica) formulation against mosquitoes
Mosquitoes transmit serious human diseases, causing millions of deaths every year. Use of synthetic insecticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance and adverse environmental effec...
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Open AccessPCR-based methods for the detection of L1014 kdr mutation in Anopheles culicifacies sensu lato
Anopheles culicifacies s.l., a major malaria vector in India, has developed widespread resistance to DDT and is becoming resistant to pyrethroids–the only insecticide class recommended for the impregnation of bed...
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Open AccessBurden of malaria in pregnancy in Jharkhand State, India
Past studies in India included only symptomatic pregnant women and thus may have overestimated the proportion of women with malaria. Given the large population at risk, a cross sectional study was conducted in...
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Open AccessReduced susceptibility to selected synthetic pyrethroids in urban malaria vector Anopheles stephensi: a case study in Mangalore city, South India
Synthetic pyrethroids are potent insecticides most commonly used in the vector control programme. These are applied for indoor residual sprays, space sprays and in impregnated bed nets. Resistance reduces the ...
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Open AccessPersistent transmission of malaria in Garo hills of Meghalaya bordering Bangladesh, north-east India
Malaria is endemic in Garo hills of Meghalaya, and death cases are reported annually. Plasmodium falciparum is the major parasite, and is solely responsible for each malaria-attributable death case. Garo hills ar...
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Open AccessChlorfenapyr: a new insecticide with novel mode of action can control pyrethroid resistant malaria vectors
Malaria vectors have acquired widespread resistance to many of the currently used insecticides, including synthetic pyrethroids. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop alternative insecticides for effective...
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Open AccessStatus of pesticide management in the practice of vector control: a global survey in countries at risk of malaria or other major vector-borne diseases
It is critical that vector control pesticides are used for their acceptable purpose without causing adverse effects on health and the environment. This paper provides a global overview of the current status of...
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Open AccessPlasmodium vivax lineages: geographical distribution, tandem repeat polymorphism, and phylogenetic relationship
Multi-drug resistance and severe/complicated cases are the emerging phenotypes of vivax malaria, which may deteriorate current anti-malarial control measures. The emergence of these phenotypes could be associa...
