Oral melatonin improves the detection of parasitemia in malaria | Zendy

Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty | Zendy; B Laksminarayana Samaga | Zendy; Sudha Vidyasagar | Zendy; Jayanthi Venkataraman | Zendy

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Oral melatonin improves the detection of parasitemia in malaria

Author(s) -

Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty,

B Laksminarayana Samaga,

Sudha Vidyasagar,

Jayanthi Venkataraman

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.12518

Subject(s) - melatonin , parasitemia , malaria , medicine , placebo , clinical endpoint , gold standard (test) , clinical trial , gastroenterology , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , pathology , alternative medicine

Malaria is a growing global threat and a major cause of mortality in the tropics. The gold standard diagnosis is peripheral blood smear examination. It has been demonstrated that melatonin acts as messenger molecule in malaria pathophysiology. This concept was used to evolve a clinical study wherein use of exogenous melatonin could improve the chance of detection of the parasite.

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