• Vijay Dattatraya Sonawane
• Sudhir Tungikar

Introduction Malaria, an important tropical parasitic disease with respect to annual mortality all over the world is becoming an important research area. About 300-500 million cases are being reported every year across the globe, killing one million people per year 77% of the burden of malaria in south east Asia is from India Materials And Methods This is a hospital based, cross sectional study done in Narayana medical college and Hospital, Nellore.which included 100 consecutive cases of malaria diagnosed through peripheral smear. Patients above 18 years of age without prior co-morbidities were included. Institutional ethics committee clearance and informed consent were obtained prior to the study. Discussion Malaria is a tropical disease caused by protozoa of genus Plasmodium with 4 species namely P.vivax, P. falciparum, P. ovale and P. malariae. P. vivax accounts for >50% of all cases in Asia and Latin America. Koh KH, et al., demonstrated that P. vivax is responsible for up to 50% of malaria cases in South-East Asian population. In this study P. vivax (72%) was the commonest species causing malaria then falciparum (18%) and mixed (10%) infection. Conclusion Complications of malaria show a positive correlation with high parasite load and high CRP values. Monitoring of treatment and response to anti malaria therapy can be done using parasite load and CRP values. Based on our study vivax malaria can no longer considered as uncomplicated.

c reactive protein , malaria

"Clinical study to correlate the complications of malaria with parasite load and c - reactive protein at the time of presentation", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 2, page no.d388-d390, February-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2502347.pdf

"Clinical study to correlate the complications of malaria with parasite load and c - reactive protein at the time of presentation", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 2, page no. ppd388-d390, February-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2502347.pdf