| [concordance between thick blood smear, immunochromatography and polymerase chain reaction for malaria diagnosis]. | the rapid and effective diagnosis of malaria is the determining condition for an appropriate treatment and control of the disease. | 2008 | 18719728 |
| species composition and natural infectivity of anthropophilic anopheles (diptera: culicidae) in the states of córdoba and antioquia, northwestern colombia. | malaria is a serious health problem in the states of córdoba and antioquia, northwestern colombia, where 64.4% of total colombian cases were reported in 2007. because little entomological information is available in this region, the aim of this work was to identify the anopheles species composition and natural infectivity of mosquitoes distributed in seven localities with highest malaria transmission. a total of 1,768 anopheles mosquitoes were collected using human landing catches from march 200 ... | 2009 | 20140372 |
| polymorphism in the plasmodium vivax msp 3: gene in field samples from tierralta, colombia. | we evaluated the plasmodium vivax polymorphism by studying the pvmsp-3alpha gene's polymorphic region by pcr-rflp in 55 samples from patients living in tierralta, colombia. three different sizes of the pvmsp-3 alpha gene were found, type a (1,900 bp), type b (1,500 bp) and type c (1,100 bp); most of the samples were type a (96.4 %). the pvmsp-3alpha gene exhibited high polymorphism. seven restriction patterns were found when using alu i, and nine were found with hha i; 12 different alleles were ... | 2008 | 18797765 |
| [nutritional status in children under 6 years of age and its relation to malaria and intestinal parasitism]. | in order to determine the prevalence of the nutritional situation in children under six years of age and to study the relation with malaria and intestinal parasitism an epidemiological study of a cross sectional was carried out in cordoba locality, buenaventura municipality in the colombian pacific coast. one hundred and twenty eight children were studied to whom a questionnaire, a thick smear examination, and a serological test through the indirect immunofluorescence reaction was practiced. cop ... | 1990 | 2184526 |
| asymptomatic plasmodium spp. infection in tierralta, colombia. | with the aim of determining the prevalence of asymptomatic plasmodium spp. infection by thick smear and pcr and its association with demographic and epidemiological characteristics in the village of nuevo tay, tierralta, córdoba, colombia, a cross-sectional population study was carried out, using random probabilistic sampling. venous blood samples were taken from 212 people on day 0 for thick smear and pcr. clinical follow-up and thick smears were carried out on days 14 and 28. the prevalence of ... | 2008 | 19057816 |