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Global Warming and Risk of Vivax Malaria in Great Britain
Malaria (ague) was once common in many parts of Great Britain (GB). Here we identify areas currently at risk from vivax malaria and examine how this...
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Climate Change and the Disappearance of Malaria from England
As the world's climate continues to change there is concern that this may cause malaria to spread to new areas. Here we examine whether past changes...
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Resurgence of Malaria in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, An Epidemic of Drug-Resistant Parasites
The recent spread of malaria in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania has been blamed on climatic changes experienced during the 20 th century. Here we...
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Epidemiology and control of malaria
Malaria is essentially a local and focal disease since its transmission depends greatly on local eco-environmental conditions. In India, the...
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International perspectives on controversial practices in allergic diseases
A number of unconventional approaches, some of them autochthonous and some imported from other regions of the world, have been used for many years by...
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Herbal knowledge on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast: Consensus within diversity
This article examines knowledge of medicinal plants, both among the people of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast and among the scientific community. Data...
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Progress in the research of artemisinin-related antimalarials: An update
Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone endoperoxide isolated from Artemisia annua L. , and a number of its semisynthetic derivatives have shown to...
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Prevention of Malaria
With the increased spread of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and mounting evidence of lack of efficacy and toxicity of...
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Treatment of Malaria —1990
Malaria has become an increasingly common health problem in the 1970s and 1980s, both in areas where infection is endemic and in travellers returning...
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Primary prevention and international travel
As international travel becomes more common, the primary care physician will need to provide accurate information to his or her patients so that they...
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Aspects of imported malaria at a district general hospital in non-endemic Kuwait, Arabian Gulf
There is no indigenous mosquito-borne transmission of malaria in Kuwait. However, in a five year period at a district general hospital, the number of...
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Antimalarial Drugs
Over the last decade, chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria has spread to other areas from its original foci in Southeast Asia and South America....