ART as a method for early rapid diagnosis of tropical malaria
AUTHORS : Labin E.V. | Sobotovich S.L. | Dudoladov V.V.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Marine State University named after G.I. Nevelskoy, LPC “Synergy”,
Vladivostok, Russia
YEAR : 2010
Malaria, also known as swamp fever and paroxysmal malaria, is an acute infectious disease caused by several species of the protozoa of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted by
the bite of an Anopheles mosquito. Recently, an increasing number of Russian citizens have been bringing tropical malaria from exotic countries. The life cycle of a plasmodium is carried out
with a change of 2 hosts: the final one is a female mosquito, where sexual development takes place (sporogony) and an intermediate one, in whose body asexual development of plasmodium
(schizogony) occurs. When a mosquito bites, sporozoites are carried with blood and lymph into hepatocytes – the stage of tissue schizont. This period lasts about a week. The resulting