MALARIA: INFECTION BY PARASITES AND ACTION OF ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN
Abstract: Malaria is the disease with the highest death rate and highest spread rate in the whole wide world. The study below is conducted during the widespread of malaria in different northern areas of Pakistan. Surveys were carried out and data was collected quantitatively from specific sites of Malakand Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K.P.), Pakistan. Certain patients were screened through thick and thin smear films and a Light microscope was used to observe the results. A total number of 2517 of blood samples were tested of which 12% were positive for Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum . From both of the strains, P. vivax infected most of the patients and mostly male patients were infected. The proliferation was more during the summer season when there were more mosquitoes and the spread was lowest during the winter season. Also, no mixed infections were detected. To treat these parasitic infections, numerous drugs were produced. The antimalarial drug that treated most o...