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rare quadruple malaria infection in irian jaya indonesia.we report an exceptional finding from a blood slide collected in a remote area in the western half of new guinea island (irian jaya province, indonesia). one adolescent patient was found patently coinfected with all 4 known human malaria species, plasmodium falciparum, plasmodium vivax, plasmodium malariae, and plasmodium ovale. diagnostic erythrocytic stages of all 4 species were clearly seen in the peripheral blood. a nested polymerase chain reaction, using species-specific primer pairs to det ...199910386460
demographic risk factors for severe and fatal vivax and falciparum malaria among hospital admissions in northeastern indonesian papua.between january 1998 and december 2000, the jayapura provincial public hospital in northeastern indonesian new guinea (papua) admitted 5,936 patients with a diagnosis of malaria. the microscopic diagnosis at admission was plasmodium falciparum (3,976, 67%), plasmodium vivax (1,135, 19%), plasmodium malariae (8, < 1%), and mixed species infections (817, 14%). approximately 9% (367) of patients were classified as having severe malaria (277 p. falciparum, 36 p. vivax, 53 mixed infections, and 1 p. ...200717984364
in vivo and in vitro efficacy of chloroquine against plasmodium malariae and p. ovale in papua, indonesia.reports of potential drug-resistant strains of plasmodium malariae in western indonesia raise concerns that chloroquine resistance may be emerging in p. malariae and p. ovale. in order to assess this, in vivo and in vitro efficacy studies were conducted in patients with monoinfection in papua, indonesia. consecutive patients with uncomplicated malaria due to p. ovale or p. malariae were enrolled in a prospective clinical trial, provided with supervised chloroquine treatment, and followed for 28 ...201020937779
severe malarial thrombocytopenia: a risk factor for mortality in papua, indonesia.the significance of thrombocytopenia to the morbidity and mortality of malaria is poorly defined. we compared the platelet counts and clinical correlates of patients with and those without malaria in southern papua, indonesia.201525170106
performance of the optimal assay for detection and identification of malaria infections in asymptomatic residents of irian jaya, indonesia.the optimal assay, a new immunochromatographic "dipstick" test for malaria based on detection of plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pldh), is purported to detect infections of approximately 200 parasites/microl of blood and to differentiate between plasmodium falciparum and non-p. falciparum. we evaluated optimal performance by comparing the test strip interpretations of two independent readers with consensus results obtained independently by expert malaria microscopists. unbiased measures of sen ...200011388505
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