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Erythrocyte Features for Malaria Parasite Detection in Microscopic Images of Thin Blood Smear: A Review
Microscopic image analysis of blood smear plays a very important role in characterization of erythrocytes in screening of malaria parasites. The characteristics feature of erythrocyte changes due to malaria parasite ...
Frequency and tendency of malaria in Colombia, 1990 to 2011: a descriptive study
(Malaria Journal, 2014-05)
Malaria is a serious health problem in Colombia. This paper intends to analyse the frequency and tendencies of the disease in Colombia over the last 22 years. The researchers used the Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) methodology for ...
Simultaneous detection of Plasmodium vivax dhfr, dhps, mdr1 and crt-o resistance-associated mutations in the Colombian Amazonian region
(2018)
Background: Malaria continues being a public health problem worldwide. Plasmodium vivax is the species causing the largest number of cases of malaria in Asia and South America. Due to the lack of a completely effective ...
Demographic and epidemic transitions in peri-urban areas of Colombia: a multilevel study of malaria in the Amazonian city of San Jose del Guaviare
Migration to urban centres is among the most important forces in contemporary urban studies. In this paper, we study how the demography and epidemic profile of a community are altered when they transition from living in ...
Diferencias entre síntomas clínicos y paraclínicos al ingreso a urgencias de pacientes militares colombianos con malaria severa y no severa
(Acta Médica Colombiana, 2015-07)
Antecedentes: en los últimos años ha sido de interés el reconocimiento de manifestaciones
clínicas con que cursan los pacientes que desarrollarán malaria severa (MS), y la población militar es susceptible de adquirir la ...
Malaria intensity in Colombia by regions and populations
(2018-09-12)
Determining the distribution of disease prevalence among heterogeneous populations at the national scale is fundamental for epidemiology and public health. Here, we use a combination of methods (spatial scan statistic, ...
Specific β-Turns Precede PPIIL Structures Binding to Allele-Specific HLA-DRβ1 ∗ PBRs in Fully-Protective Malaria Vaccine Components
(2018)
The 3D structural analysis of 62 peptides derived from highly pathogenic Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite proteins involved in host cell invasion led to finding a striking association between particular β-turn types ...