Bangladesh

Stratifying malaria receptivity in Bangladesh using archived rapid diagnostic tests

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malaria, plasmodium, falciparum, vivax, Bangladesh, rapid diagnostic tests

Author(s):

André Barembaye Sagna, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Shamsun Naher, Shayla Islam, M. M. Aktaruzzaman, Mohammad Shafiul Alam and Cristian Koepfli

Reference:

Malaria Journal 2020 19:345, 23 September 2020

Surveillance of low-density infections and of exposure to vectors is crucial to understand where malaria elimination might be feasible, and where the risk of outbreaks is high. Archived rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), used by national malaria control and elimination programs for clinical diagnosis, present a valuable, yet rarely used resource for in-depth studies on malaria epidemiology.

NOT Open Access | Retinal involvement in severe noncerebral malaria

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noncerebral, malaria, artesunate, artemether-lumefantrine, plasmodium falciparum, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Lando L, Borooah S, Maude RJ

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Can J Ophthalmol. 2020 Aug 20:S0008-4182(20)30675-X

A 20-year-old male patient complained of reduced vision after being admitted to a hospital in Bangladesh with 5 days of fever associated with convulsions and anemia (hematocrit 11%). Uncorrected visual acuity was 20/80 OD and 20/64 OS.

NOT Open Access | Preliminary Report of Pyrethroid Resistance in Anopheles vagus, an Important Malaria Vector in Bangladesh

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pyrethroid resistance, anopheles vagus, malaria, who, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Alam MS, Al-Amin HM, Khan WA, Haque R, Nahlen BL, Lobo NF

Reference:

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Aug;103(2):810-811

According to the WHO, unmanaged insecticide resistance may lead to increases in malaria-related mortality and morbidity. Bangladesh, having made significant progress in malaria control efforts, has recently seen an upswing in malaria cases-58% of which occurred in Bandarban district. Toward identifying entomological drivers of increased malaria, an entomological survey including Anopheles susceptibility to the insecticides in use was conducted in Bandarban.

Cost-effective analysis of childhood malaria vaccination in endemic hotspots of Bangladesh

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childhood malaria vaccination, endemic hotspots, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Sarker AR, Sultana M

Reference:

PLoS ONE 15(5): e0233902

Bangladesh has a history of endemic malaria transmission, with 17.5 million people at risk. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of universal childhood malaria vaccination in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh with newly developed RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccines.

NOT Open Access | Preliminary Report of Pyrethroid Resistance in Anopheles vagus, an Important Malaria Vector in Bangladesh

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pyrethroid resistance, anopheles vagus, malaria, vector, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Alam MS, Al-Amin HM, Khan WA, Haque R, Nahlen BL, Lobo NF

Reference:

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 May 11

According to the WHO, unmanaged insecticide resistance may lead to increases in malaria-related mortality and morbidity. Bangladesh, having made significant progress in malaria control efforts, has recently seen an upswing in malaria cases—58% of which occurred in Bandarban district.

Screening for malaria antigen and anti-malarial IgG antibody in forcibly-displaced Myanmar nationals: Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, 2018

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malaria, anti-malarial, IgG antibody, Myanmar, Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Austin Lu, Olivia Cote, Eric Rogier, et al.

Reference:

Malaria Journal 2020 19:130, 30 March 2020

Several refugee settlements in Bangladesh have provided housing and medical care for the forcibly-displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMN, also known as Rohingya) population. The identification of malaria infection status in the refugee settlements is useful in treating infected persons and in developing malaria prevention recommendations. Assays for Plasmodium antigens and human IgG against Plasmodium parasites can be used as indicators to determine malaria infection status and exposure.

Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh

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malaria, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Sinha I, Sayeed AA, Maude RJ, et al.

Reference:

BMC Med. 2020 Mar 4;18(1):45

Spread of malaria and antimalarial resistance through human movement present major threats to current goals to eliminate the disease. Bordering the Greater Mekong Subregion, southeast Bangladesh is a potentially important route of spread to India and beyond, but information on travel patterns in this area are lacking.

NOT Open Access | Case Report: A Case of Primaquine-Induced Hemoglobinuria in Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase-Deficient Malaria Patient in Southeastern Bangladesh

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Primaquine-Induced Hemoglobinuria, Glucose-6-Phosphate, Dehydrogenase-Deficient, malaria, Bangladesh

Author(s):

Phru CS, Kibria MG, Thriemer K, Chowdhury MU, Jahan N, Aktaruzzaman MM, Rahmat H, Satyagraha AW, Prue AS, Khan WA, Ley B, Alam MS.

Reference:

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Nov 4

We herein report the first case of Mediterranean glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) variant from Bangladesh. A boy had been admitted to hospital and was diagnosed with uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax infection and treated with 30 mg/kg body weight (BW) chloroquine for 3 days and 4.8 mg/kg BW primaquine (PQ) to be taken over 14 days.

Country:

Bangladesh

Medical Condition:

Plasmodium vivax

Medical Treatment:

chloroquine

An epidemiological overview of malaria in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh, malaria

Author(s):

Nazrul Islam, Stefanos Bonovas, Georgios K. Nikolopoulos

Reference:

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 11, Issue 1, January–February 2013, Pages 29-36

This paper aims at providing an overview of the malaria situation in this country. Relevant information was retrieved from published articles and reports in PubMed and Google Scholar.

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