Efficacy of Miltefosine and Artemether on Infected Snails with : Immunological and Histological Studies.

snails have received much attention due to their great medical importance as vectors for transmitting infection to humans. The main objective of the present work was to assess the efficacy of miltefosin a synthetic molluscicidal drug and artemether a natural molluscicidal drug. The correlation between immunological and histological observations from light and electron microscopy of the hemocytes of post treatment with both drugs was also evaluated.

Epidemiological trends of malaria in the Western regions of Saudi Arabia: a cross sectional study.

Introduction: Saudi Arabia has successfully reduced malaria cases to be constrained largely in the western regions. This study aimed to determine the epidemiological trends of malaria infection in five western regions of Saudi Arabia.

Methodology: A retrospective analysis was conducted to investigate the epidemiological trends of malaria infection in the western regions, based on the published registry of the Saudi Ministry of Health, during the period from 2014 to 2017 using the appropriate statistical tools.