Sentence examples for malaria as defined from inspiring English sources

Severe malaria, as defined by the WHO, was observed in 22 (91,7%) of the patients, 15 of whom (68,2%) had 4 or more criteria.

The endpoint was clinical malaria, as defined above, detected passively at one of the study clinics.

Patients with UM were defined based on a positive blood smear for P. falciparum without evidence for severe or complicated malaria as defined by the WHO [1].

For the severe malaria case-control study, 113 patients with severe malaria as defined by criteria from WHO that were admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and 245 mild malaria patients with uncomplicated non-severe malaria (termed 'mild malaria') were recruited in 2002 and 2003.

Children and adults with any of the features of severe malaria as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO 2000).

High parasite density malaria episodes as defined in the trial (malaria with parasite density ≥5000 parasites/µl) were also examined.

Cases were those with severe malaria (SM) including severe malaria anaemia (SMA), defined as Hb < 50 g/l (or <60 g/l after transfusion); lactic acidosis (LA), defined as blood lactate >5 mmol/l; hypoxia, defined as oxygen saturation <90% while breathing ambient air; or cerebral malaria (CM), as defined below.

The proposed analyses, based on usual statistical packages, appeared adapted to take into account the full information contained in the four categorical outcome in malaria trials, as defined by WHO, with the possibility of adjusting on individual and global covariates.

Inclusion criteria were travel within the past 2 months to a malaria-endemic area as defined by the World Health Organization, age >18 years, documented temperature >38°C at admission or within the previous 2 days, and a decision by the examining clinician to obtain a blood film for suspected malaria.

With genetic results now available, we assessed the difference in risk of malaria between G6PD deficient individuals, as defined by enzymatic assay or genotype (Table 2).

A second definition of malaria was fever (defined as above) and a peripheral parasiteamia of >7000 parasites/µl blood, a local threshold with high specificity for clinical malaria [10].