| fatal falciparum malaria among narcotic injectors. | eleven narcotic injectors from a prison in saigon were hospitalized with falciparum malaria. coma and intense parasitemia were common and eight patients died soon after admission. two of three autopsied cases also had purulent pulmonary infections. no non-addicted prisoners were hospitalized for malaria. nine more unsuspected falciparum infections were found among 29 other addicts in the prison. the clustering of malaria infections among narcotic injectors who had not been in malarious areas ind ... | 1975 | 1103639 |
| resistance of plasmodium falciparum to antimalarial drugs in a highly endemic area of southern viet nam: a study in vivo and in vitro. | to assess the antimalarial sensitivity of plasmodium falciparum in vivo and in vitro in a highly endemic area of southern viet nam, a field study was conducted (in 1999) at a rubber plantation in binh phuoc province north of ho chi minh city. fifty patients were treated with either artesunate (4 mg/kg on day 0, then 2 mg/kg on day 1 to 4) or mefloquine (10 mg/kg at 0 h, then 5 mg/kg at 6 h), and their progress was followed for 28 days under standard who protocols. blood spots were taken at basel ... | 2001 | 11491008 |
| short report: hepatitis b infection and severe plasmodium falciparum malaria in vietnamese adults. | we investigated the prevalence of infection with hepatitis b virus among adult vietnamese patients hospitalized for severe plasmodiumfalciparum malaria. sera from patients admitted with severe malaria in ho chi minh city, vietnam, between may 1991 and january 1996 were assayed for hepatitis b surface antigen (hb(s)ag) by a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit. the overall prevalence of hb(s)ag was 23.77% (77 of 324). this was higher than reported estimates of prevalence in the genera ... | 2002 | 12135283 |