Category: Malaria

INTRODUCTION The world Health Organization reports that of the top 10 causes of death in low income countries Malaria ranked at position 6, with an alarming crude death rate of 45,000 per 100,000 of the population.1 Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne parasitic infection with protozoa of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted by the female…

Abstract Malaria is a very important parasitic illness of humans caused by infection with a parasite of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted by feminine genus Anopheles. Infection caused by P. falciparum is that the most serious of all the opposite species particularly in terms of morbidity and mortality thus the rationale why most of the…

Abstract Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) resolve the smallest degree of genetic difference between individuals and in the post-genomic era are increasingly being used to identify genetic markers for complex disease traits (Cargill M et al). SNPs at the TNF can be identified to be associated with the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum. A large body of…

Abstract Background: Malaria is an endemic disease in Keerom Regency, Papua Province which is influenced by age, sex, education, socio-economic, use of mosquito repellent, use of insecticide-treated bed nets, wire mesh installation, house walls, puddles, presence of large animal cages and distances house with a place breeding Objective: To determine the risk factors for malaria…

Indonesia targets malaria elimination in 2030 and in the Ministry of Health’s Strategic Plan In 2015-2019 malaria elimination is one of the targeted diseases to reduce the illness rate from 2 per thousand population to 1 per 1,000 population. The target of malaria elimination in Indonesia in 2019 from the 2012 results of 212 increased…