Orang Asli (Indigenous Malaysian) Biomedical Bibliography AS Baer

Pahang, Semai; malarial parasitemia rates were high, higher at Betau, with a 62% rate in the 0-9
year group there.)
374. Mak, J. W. Current malaria research activities in Malaysia. J. Bioscience (Malaysia) 5 (1
and 2):73-79, 1994. (Half the reported malarial infections in W. Malaysia were in Orang Asli in
1991-92; gives parasitemia data for Betau, Pahang, Semai.)
375. Mak, J. W., et al. Parasitological and serological surveys for malaria among the inhabitants
of an aborigine village and an adjacent Malay village. Acta Tropica 44:83-89, 1987. (On Sungai
Lui Temuan; the authors considered some genetic resistance to malaria later: see Foo et al.,
1992.)
376. Mak, J. W., et al. Epidemiology and control of malaria in Malaysia. SEAJTMPH 23
(4):572-577, 1992. (A review.)
377. Moorhouse, D. Some entomological aspects of the malaria eradication pilot project in
Malaya. J. Med. Entomology 2 (2):109-119, 1965. (On Selangor Temuan at Bkt. Klubi, Bkt.
Legong, Bkt. Manchong, Bkt. Mandol, and Ulu Lui.)
378. Nicholas, C. Medicines are for curing, not killing. Aliran Monthly 17 (3):7-8, 1997.
(Criticizes the malaria-control program for Orang Asli, following the deaths of Jah Hut children
at Seboi, Kuala Krau, Pahang, in February, 1997, following administration of faulty anti-malarial
drugs.)
379. Norhayati, M., et al. Clinical features of malaria in Orang Asli population [sic] in Pos Piah,
Malaysia. MJM 56 (3):271-274, 2001. (Found 11% infection rate in Perak Temiar; anemia was
associated with malaria parasitemia.)
381. Pillay, M. R., H. Frank, and J. T. Ponnampalam. Malaria antibody titres as measured by the
indirect fluorescent antibody test in relation to parasitemia and treatment. SEAJTMPH 12
(1):111-113, 1981. (Studied 39 “deep jungle” Orang Asli patients at Gombak hospital.)
382. Ponnampalam, J. T. Deoxycycline in the treatment of falciparum malaria amoang aborigine
children in West Malaysia. TRSTMH 75: 372-377, 1981. (Tested parasitemics at Gombak
hospital; monitored G6PD deficiency because primaquine is then a danger.)
383. Rohani, A., et al. Susceptibility status of Anopheles maculates Theobold (Diptera:
Culicidae) towards DDT, malathion, and permethrin in peninsular Malaysia. Tropical
Biomedicine 12 (1):39-44, 1995. (Different Orang Asli areas showed different levels of
resistance to various insecticides.)
384. Rohani, A., et al. Comparative field evaluation of residual-sprayed deltamethrin WG and
deltamethrin WP for the control of malaria in Pahang. SEAJTMPH 37 (6):1139-1148, 2006. (On
Orang Asli areas in Kuala Lipis where Anopheles maculates is the malaria vector; deltamethrin
WG was found to be effective against the vector for up to 9 months.)
385. Sandosham, A. A. Malariology, with special reference to Malaya. Univ. Malaya Press,
Singapore, 1965. (Reprint, distributed by Oxford Univ. Press, London.) (Orang Asli are
referenced in the index as “Sakai;” surveys found malaria parasite rates ranging from 1 to 49%
and spleen rates from 1 to 40% “among the Sakais.”)