| histopathology of fatal respiratory distress caused by plasmodium vivax malaria. | an otherwise healthy 20-year-old woman in goa, india, received antibiotics after a diagnosis of upper respiratory tract infection. one week later, vivax malaria was diagnosed at a health center, but the patient developed respiratory distress and lost consciousness. she arrived at emergency department in shock, breathless, and comatose. she died within minutes. two independent laboratories later confirmed plasmodium vivax by microscopy (140,000/microl) and by nested and real-time polymerase chain ... | 2009 | 19861606 |
| anopheles subpictus carry human malaria parasites in an urban area of western india and may facilitate perennial malaria transmission. | india contributes 1.5-2 million annual confirmed cases of malaria. since both parasites and vectors are evolving rapidly, updated information on parasite prevalence in mosquitoes is important for vector management and disease control. possible new vector-parasite interactions in goa, india were tested. | 2016 | 26919828 |
| assessing the genetic diversity of the vir genes in indian plasmodium vivax population. | variant surface antigens (vsas) present on the surface of parasitized erythrocytes facilitate many plasmodium spp. to escape the host immune system during infection. multigene families coding for vsas exist in several plasmodium spp. and are located on telomeric and subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes. p. vivax genome also contains a multigene superfamily vir (variant interspersed repeats), present in the subtelomeric region with a possible role in immune evasion like the var gene in p. falc ... | 2012 | 22820026 |
| dynamics of plasmodium vivax sporogony in wild anopheles stephensi in a malaria-endemic region of western india. | in global efforts to track mosquito infectivity and parasite elimination, controlled mosquito-feeding experiments can help in understanding the dynamics of parasite development in vectors. anopheles stephensi is often accepted as the major urban malaria vector that transmits plasmodium in goa and elsewhere in south asia. however, much needs to be learned about the interactions of plasmodium vivax with an. stephensi. as a component of the us nih international center of excellence for malaria rese ... | 2017 | 28693607 |