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ArticlePathogens and global health2017

Monitoring of Plasmodium infection in humans and potential vectors of malaria in a newly emerged focus in southern Iran.

Mohsen Kalantari, Zahra Soltani, Mostafa Ebrahimi, Masoud Yousefi, Masoumeh Amin, Ayda Shafiei, Kourosh Azizi

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Epidemiology of malaria in saravan city and its suburbs from 2018 to 2023, Southeast Iran.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2024
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  5. Investigation of LAMP Technique in Diagnosis Type ofEthiopian journal of health sciences · 2021
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  6. Bionomics of phlebotomine sand flies species (Diptera: Psychodidae) and their natural infection withJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2018
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7 authors.

Mohsen Kalantaria Research Centre for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Zahra Soltanic Centre for Disease Control , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Mostafa Ebrahimic Centre for Disease Control , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Masoud Yousefib Department of Health, Mamasani Higher Education Complex for Health , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Masoumeh Amina Research Centre for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Ayda Shafieia Research Centre for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Kourosh Azizia Research Centre for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite control programs, which aim to eliminate malaria from Iran by 2025, transmission of malaria has not been removed from the country. This study aimed to monitor malaria from asymptomatic parasitaemia and clinical cases from about one year of active case surveillance and potential vectors of malaria in the newly emerged focus of Mamasani and Rostam, southern Iran during 2014-2015. Samples were collected and their DNAs were extracted for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay using specific primers for detection of Plasmodium species. The Annual Parasite Incidence rate (API) was three cases per 1,000 population from 2,000 individuals in three villages. Parasites species were detected in 9 out of the 4,000 blood smear samples among which, 6 cases were indigenous and had no history of travels to endemic areas of malaria. Also, the prevalence rate of asymptomatic parasites was about 0.3%. Overall, 1073 Anopheles spp. were caught from 9 villages. Totally, 512 female samples were checked by PCR, which indicated that none of them was infected with Plasmodium. Despite new malaria local transmission in humans in Mamasani and Rostam districts, no infection with Plasmodium was observed in Anopheles species. Because of neighboring of the studied area to the re-emerged focus in Fars province (Kazerun) and important endemic foci of malaria in other southern provinces, such as Hormozgan and Kerman, monitoring of the vectors and reservoir hosts of Plasmodium species would be unavoidable. Application of molecular methods, such as PCR, can simplify access to the highest level of accuracy in malaria researches.

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AdultAnimalsAnophelesDisease ReservoirsFemaleHumansInsect VectorsIranMalariaMaleMiddle AgedParasitemiaPolymerase Chain ReactionPopulation SurveillanceAnophelesHumanIranMalariaPCRPlasmodium

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