Miles B Markus

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What is the explanation for Plasmodium vivax malarial recurrence?

No, it is not merely hypnozoite activation or recrudescence as conventionally understood. This is a rhetorical question, because the answer is...

14 January 2019 2,786 15 View

Can primaquine fail to kill putative extra-hepatic dormant stages of Plasmodium vivax, resulting in malarial relapse?

Despite treatment with the anti-relapse drug primaquine, Plasmodium vivax malaria often recurs. One reason might be related to CYP 2D6 (Marcsisin SR, Reichard G, Pybus BS. 2016. Primaquine...

12 September 2016 5,522 12 View

Recurrent Plasmodium vivax malaria: How should genotypic homology in genetic epidemiological studies be interpreted?

This question is concerned only with recurrences that are neither reinfections nor recrudescences originating from persisting parasites in the bloodstream. Given these two exclusions, when a...

07 September 2016 2,346 2 View

"Environmental Engineering" in relation to Malaria?

In regard to the control / elimination / eradication of malaria, I am wondering if any large bodies of water / swamps are currently being gotten rid of anywhere or if any such thing is planned...

23 August 2016 6,555 21 View

Hemacolor stain for avian blood parasites?

Perhaps this could be a short cut, versus checking the literature at this stage. Is there anyone out there who has actually described a new species of Haemoproteus, Leucocytozoon or Plasmodium...

11 August 2016 8,040 6 View