Publications
| congenital malaria due to plasmodium vivax: a case report from sri lanka. | a case of plasmodium vivax malaria in an eight-week-old infant in colombo is documented, with epidemiological and circumstantial evidence which strongly supports a transplacental route of infection. the malarial antibody levels detected by the indirect fluorescent antibody technique in both mother and child are discussed in terms of the present epidemiological pattern of malaria in the country. we also comment on the species incidence of congenital malaria, this case being the first caused by p. ... | 1982 | 7043805 |
| a metropolitan hospital in a non-endemic area provides a sampling pool for epidemiological studies on vivax malaria in sri lanka. | an analysis of records of 494 malaria patients admitted to the general hospital in colombo (the capital of sri lanka where malaria transmission is not known to occur) from 1981 to 1984 is presented and compared with national malaria data from the entire country. the incidence of predominantly plasmodium vivax malaria rose sharply over the 3 years; its species distribution and seasonal variation in patients in the general hospital, colombo (ghc) generally reflected the disease pattern in the coun ... | 1987 | 3318015 |