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Journal of Medical Sciences

Year: 2003 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 294-297
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2003.294.297
Blood Biochemical Analysis of Afghan Malaria Patients
Arsala Mansoor, Shah Mohammad Mari and Sadia Nasir

Abstract: The hazardous biochemical effects of the malarial parasite Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum was compared in the blood of Afghan patients. The role of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) and immunoglobulins (lgs) was also detected in the increased incidence of malaria in Afghans. Blood biochemical analysis for bilirubin, serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), G-6-PD and lgs was conducted in hundred Afghan malaria patients coming in Malaria Control Centre, Quetta. Patients were grouped according to the form of species present. An increase of 1.0 - 2.0 mgs% of Bilirubin was observed in 14% patients, while rise in SGPT was associated to 50% patients. None of the patients were found to be deficient in G-6-PD activity. The most significant finding was a low rise of lgs, limited to less than 50% patients only. Thus, P. falciparum appears to produce more hazardous effects.

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Arsala Mansoor, Shah Mohammad Mari and Sadia Nasir, 2003. Blood Biochemical Analysis of Afghan Malaria Patients. Journal of Medical Sciences, 3: 294-297.

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