COMBATING INFECTION: Avoiding the sting of malaria

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January 2010 
Volume 40  Number 1
Pages 63 - 63
 
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ABSTRACT
CAUSED BY FOUR species of the parasite Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae), malaria is a serious, sometimes fatal, and often chronic disease that's usually transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. The parasites injected into a person during a mosquito bite multiply in the liver and red blood cells (RBCs). When infected RBCs burst, they release parasites into the bloodstream. In addition to transmission via mosquito bite, malaria can be transmitted congenitally from mother to fetus or through blood transfusions, organ transplants, or sharing contaminated needles or syringes.1Malaria is relatively uncommon in the United States, with about 1,200 cases and 13 deaths reported each year. Most patients in the United States are immigrants and travelers returning from endemic areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Worldwide, 247 million cases of malaria were reported in 2006, and it kills over 1 million people each year.2,3Usually

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