The malaria therapy (or malaria inoculation, and sometimes malariotherapy) is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection...
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Antimalarial medication (redirect from Anti-malaria medication)
As of 2018, modern treatments, including for severe malaria, continued to depend on therapies deriving historically from quinine and artesunate, both...
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Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates and Anopheles mosquitoes. Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include...
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"well tolerated and Malaria Fever Treated patients had a significantly longer survival." Auguste Marie created a center of malaria therapy, the Centre d'impaludation...
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relationship: a history of general paralysis of the insane and malaria fever therapy, 1910–1950. American Journal of Psychiatry. May 1995;152(2):660–65...
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Artemisinin (redirect from Artemisinin and malaria)
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are now standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium...
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Wagner-Jauregg discovered that malaria therapy (in this case, medical induction of a fever) involving infecting paretic patients with malaria could halt the progression...
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Antioxidant Activities of Some Selected Medicinal Plants Used for Malaria Therapy in Southwestern Nigeria". Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research...
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The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and...
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Thalassemia (redirect from Gene therapy for thalassemia)
protection against malaria, explaining why sickle-cell trait and thalassemia are more common in regions of the world where the risk of malaria is higher. An...
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Plasmodium vivax (redirect from Malaria, vivax)
recurring malaria. Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections...
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Malaria prophylaxis is the preventive treatment of malaria. Several malaria vaccines are under development. For pregnant women who are living in malaria...
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treated with combination therapy include tuberculosis, leprosy, cancer, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. One major benefit of combination therapies is that they reduce...
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Malaria vaccines are vaccines that prevent malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease which affected an estimated 249 million people globally in 85 malaria...
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Lunatic asylum (section Physical therapies)
M (2000). "Why Wagner-Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for discovering malaria therapy for General Paresis of the Insane". History of Psychiatry. 11 (44):...
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DDT (redirect from DDT use against malaria)
combination therapies (ACTs) measured using surveillance data in four African countries". World Health Organization, January 31, 2008. Malaria deaths halved...
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Sickle cell disease (redirect from Gene therapy for sickle cell disease)
determined by E. A. Beet and J. V. Neel. In 1954, the protective effect against malaria of sickle cell trait was described. Signs of sickle cell disease usually...
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used to treat malaria. The intravenous form is preferred to quinine for severe malaria. Often it is used as part of combination therapy, such as artesunate...
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Plasmodium falciparum (redirect from Malaria, falciparum)
parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles...
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Ibukun E; Fabeku, Peter O (2006-11-13). "Medicinal Plants Useful for Malaria Therapy in Okeigbo, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria". African Journal of Traditional...
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Plasmodium (redirect from Malaria parasite)
blood cells. The ensuing destruction of host red blood cells can result in malaria. During this infection, some parasites are picked up by a blood-feeding...
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Quartan fever (redirect from Quartan malaria)
Quartan fever is one of the four types of malaria which can be contracted by humans. It is specifically caused by the Plasmodium malariae species, one...
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Antimicrobial resistance (section Antibody therapy)
under investigation to improve efficacy. Similar to the situation in malaria therapy, where successful treatments based on ancient recipes have been found...
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genetic therapy trials targeted infectious diseases. 69.2% of trials targeted HIV, 11% hepatitis B or C, and 7.1% malaria. Some genetic therapies have been...
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Intermittent preventive therapy or intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is a public health intervention aimed at treating and preventing malaria episodes in infants...
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nets to combat malaria, provided anti-tuberculosis treatment for 7.1 million people, supported 25 million people on antiretroviral therapy for AIDS, and...
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Management of HIV/AIDS (redirect from Highly active antiretroviral therapy)
act on different viral targets is known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). HAART decreases the patient's total burden of HIV, maintains function...
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artemisinin-based combination therapy approved in the United States. In January 2009, Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) launched Coartem...
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Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis. This includes the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to...
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