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Do I have malaria?

June 8, 2011 By Malaria Q&A 2 Comments

QUESTION: Hi, I went to Ivory Coast August/2003 back March/2004, took some pills to help prevent Malaria on my trip but ran out and did not get more. While I was there I got many mosquito bites. Around October/03 became very sick, got tested for malaria at the hospital in Quebec but negative. Now May/2011 still have all the same symptoms, flu like symptoms, feeling cold most of the time, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Chloroquine, Malaria Diagnosis, Malaria relapse, Malaria Symptoms, PCR, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, primequine, RDTs

Can malaria come back?

May 19, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

QUESTION: If you had malaria once, can it return for a second time without being in a malaria area? ANSWER: Yes. There are several ways in which malaria can come back without being re-infected again. The blood forms of the parasites can sometimes persist at low numbers, so that the patient no longer has any symptoms; if these blood forms begin to reproduce again, the patient will once … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: malaria recrudescence, malaria recurrence, Malaria relapse, Plasmodium Life Cycle, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, primequine

Treatment for Malaria

May 17, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION: How do you treat malaria? ANSWER: Malaria can be treated with a number of different types of medication; which one to use depends on the type of malaria you have, as well as whether resistant strains are known to occur in your area. Below I have copied the response I wrote to a similar question on malaria treatment, posted on the 2nd of May, 2011: In most cases of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies, Chloroquine, Malaria Diagnosis, Malaria Treatment, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, primequine

Treatment for malaria in Africa

May 9, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

QUESTION: What is the treatment for malaria in Africa? ANSWER: The appropriate form of treatment for malaria, regardless of where you are, depends on the type of malaria you have. This can be determined through diagnosis; each of the main malaria parasites that ordinarily infect humans (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale) looks slightly different under the microscope, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: blood film, Malaria Diagnosis, Malaria relapse, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, primequine, Rapid Diagnostic Tests

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