0 a disease that you can get from the bite of a particular type of mosquito (= a small flying insect). Malaria causes periods of fever and makes you shiver and feel very cold. It is common in many hotter parts of the world.
1 a disease, esp. of the hotter regions of the earth, caused by the bite of an infected mosquito (= small flying insect)
While the primary endpoint studies clinical malaria, the occurrence of infection is of interest as well.
The incremental mortality risk from climate-change-induced malaria, for example, would be valued differently to, say, the same increase in risk caused by deteriorating medical standards.
In the case of malaria eradication, for example, the health programme budget could include public works expenditure for draining swamps.
The advent of molecular techniques for the detection of malaria parasites has led to greater appreciation of the importance of mixed malarial infections.
Calculations suggest that in many populations 10-15 % of human mortality can be ascribed to a single cause : malaria.
Rapid switching to multiple antigenic and adhesive phenotypes in malaria.
The diagnosis of malaria infection depends on the recognition of parasites in stained blood films.
This list includes one parasite vaccine, against malaria, and serves as a reminder that there are many competing priorities for public health programmes.
