• The malaria therapy (or malaria inoculation, and sometimes malariotherapy) is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection...
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  • 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-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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    Tu Youyou (section Malaria)
    Medicine 2015 (co-recipient) for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria, awarded one half of this prize; and William C. Campbell and Satoshi...
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