| a retrospective prevalence study of malaria in an aborigine hospital in gombak, selangor, malaysia. | this was a five-year retrospective study (1999-2004) on the prevalence of malaria at the aborigine hospital, gombak, malaysia. a total of 94 malaria cases was analysed. the highest case reports were for the year 2000, with 32 cases (34%), and the lowest was in 2004, with only 1 (1%). the majority of cases reported were among the semai tribe (44%), followed by the temiar tribe (34%) and the unspecified tribe (s) (20%). females (53%) were more commonly affected than males (47%). the majority of ca ... | 2006 | 17547040 |
| malaria endemicity in an orang asli community in pahang, malaysia. | an epidemiological cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the endemicity of malaria among the orang asli population of raub, pahang. malaria endemicity was measured in terms of the prevalence of parasitaemia and splenomegaly. a total of 520 orang asli were examined. the point prevalence of malaria was 24.2% (95% ci 20.7-25.1), with plasmodium falciparum (67.5%) being the predominant species. children < 12 years were at least 3.7 times more likely to be parasitaemic compared to those o ... | 2009 | 19696728 |
| studies on the resistance of malaria to chloroquine and to a combination of chloroquine and pyrimethamine in peninsular malaysia. | in vivo chloroquine resistance surveys, which allowed for detection of late recrudescing ri resistance, were conducted in three regions of peninsular malaysia, which were previously not recognized as having appreciable drug resistance. among the 485 plasmodium falciparum infections tested resistance rates ranged locally from 20% to 67% in those with parasitaemias over 1,000 per mm3, and 5% to 59% in all parasitaemias. the region found to have the most serious resistance was western pahang. in on ... | 1976 | 785725 |
| plasmodium knowlesi: from malaysia, a novel health care threat. | epidemic foci of plasmodium knowlesi malaria have been identified during the past ten years in malaysia, in particular in the states of sarawak and sabah (malaysia borneo), and in the pahang region (peninsular malaysia). based on a review of the available recent international literature, the authors underline the importance of molecular biology examinations, polymerase chain reactions (pcr), performed with primers specific for p. knowlesi, since the current microscopic examination (haemoscope) m ... | 2012 | 22475654 |