| induced malaria and antibody titres in acute infections and in blood donors in kuwait. | concurrent with the increase in the number of imported cases of malaria into non-endemic kuwait during the past 5 years, induced infections have been identified for the first time. we report 10 such cases over a 4-year-period. of 8 transfusion-induced infections, 4 were due to plasmodium falciparum and 4 to p. vivax. the mean incubation period for p. falciparum patients was 13 d and for p. vivax, 17 d. an accidental syringe-needle transmission and a congenital infection were due to p. falciparum ... | 1987 | 3318016 |
| malaria in non-endemic kuwait: resident status of patients with imported infections and the need for prophylaxis. | kuwait is non-endemic for malaria but, with a large expatriate population, the number of imported infections has escalated from 87 in 1980 to 534 in 1984, an increase of over 613%. during a period of 1 year at the infectious diseases hospital, where most of the cases were diagnosed each year, 16.7% of blood samples sent for microscopy were positive for malaria; 95.47% of these patients were hospitalized for an average of 4 days. in a 2-year period, only three (0.52%) kuwaiti nationals imported t ... | 1985 | 3910847 |
| comparison of the optimal test with pcr for diagnosis of malaria in immigrants. | the optimal test (flow inc., portland, oreg.), which detects a malaria parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pldh) antigen, has not been evaluated for its sensitivity in the diagnosis of malaria infection in various epidemiological settings. using microscopy and a pcr as reference standards, we performed a comparison of these assays with the optimal test for the detection of plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax infection in 550 immigrants who had come from areas where malaria is endemic to resid ... | 1999 | 10523567 |
| diagnosis of imported malaria by plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pldh) and histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp-2)-based immunocapture assays. | this study was conducted to evaluate the performance of two rapid non-microscopic assays: plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pldh) assay (optimal) and plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp-2) assay (ict malaria). the assays were used to detect malaria infection in 515 immigrants living in kuwait. the performance of both assays was compared to that of microscopy of giemsa-stained thick blood films and to each other. of the 515 patients tested, 163 were positive for malaria parasite ... | 2001 | 11425156 |
| drug-resistant plasmodium falciparum infection in immigrants and non-immune travellers. | to detect the incidence of drug-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria infection in immigrants and travellers in non-endemic kuwait. | 2002 | 12445011 |