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Resistance to chloroquine in falciparum malaria in Assam State, India.
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This article is published in The Journal of communicable diseases.The article was published on 1973-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drug resistance & Malaria.read more
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Quantitative assessment of antimalarial activity in vitro by a semiautomated microdilution technique.
TL;DR: A rapid, semiautomated microdilution method was developed for measuring the activity of potential antimalarial drugs against cultured intraerythrocytic asexual forms of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, and results demonstrated that the method is sensitive and precise.
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Burden of Malaria in India: Retrospective and Prospective View
TL;DR: In India, nine Anopheline vectors are involved in transmitting malaria in diverse geo-ecological paradigms and about 2 million confirmed malaria cases and 1,000 deaths are reported annually, although 15 million cases and 20, 000 deaths are estimated by WHO South East Asia Regional Office as mentioned in this paper.
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Drug resistance in malaria.
TL;DR: Resistance to antiparasitic resistance in general and antimalarial resistance in particular has not received much attention, especially in the Indian scenario.
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Continuing challenge of infectious diseases in India
TL;DR: India needs to rethink and revise its health policy to broaden the agenda of disease control, and is recommended to create a functional public health infrastructure shared between central and state governments, with professional leadership and a formally trained public health cadre of personnel who manage an integrated control mechanism of diseases in districts.
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Malaria in India: challenges and opportunities.
TL;DR: Considering the existing gaps in reported and estimated morbidity and mortality, need for estimation of true burden of malaria has been stressed and approaches and priorities that may be helpful in tackling serious issues confronting malaria programme have been outlined.