Plasmodium falciparum exposure in utero, maternal age and parity influence the innate activation of foetal antigen presenting cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent reports on the decreasing susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin derivatives along the Thailand and Myanmar border are worrying. Indeed it may spread to India and then Africa, repeating the same pattern observed for chloroquine resistance. Therefore, it is essential to start monito...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Tinto H,Bonkian LN,Nana LA,Yerbanga I,Lingani M,Kazienga A,Valéa I,Sorgho H,Kpoda H,Guiguemdé TR,Ouédraogo JB,Mens PF,Schallig H,D'Alessandro U

更新日期：2014-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conventional diagnosis of malaria has relied upon either clinical diagnosis or microscopic examination of peripheral blood smears. These methods, if not carried out exactly, easily result in the over- or under-diagnosis of malaria. The reliability and accuracy of malaria RDTs, even in extremely challenging h...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Diggle E,Asgary R,Gore-Langton G,Nahashon E,Mungai J,Harrison R,Abagira A,Eves K,Grigoryan Z,Soti D,Juma E,Allan R

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T1BT* is a peptide construct containing the T1 and B epitopes located in the 5' minor repeat and the 3' major repeat of the central repeat region of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP), respectively, and the universal T* epitope located in the C-terminus of the same protein. This peptide...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Topchiy E,Armstrong GS,Boswell KI,Buchner GS,Kubelka J,Lehmann TE

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study of the biology, transmission and pathogenesis of Plasmodium vivax is hindered due to the lack of a robustly propagating, continuous culture of this parasite. The current culture system for P. vivax parasites still suffered from consistency and difficulties in long-term maintenance of parasites in c...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Roobsoong W,Tharinjaroen CS,Rachaphaew N,Chobson P,Schofield L,Cui L,Adams JH,Sattabongkot J

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relatively few programmes have attempted to actively engage the private sector in national malaria control efforts. This paper evaluates the health impact of a large-scale distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) conducted in partnership with a Zambian agribusiness, and its cost-effectiveness from the...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Sedlmayr R,Fink G,Miller JM,Earle D,Steketee RW

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high-resolution surveillance-response system has been developed within a geographic information system (GIS) to support malaria elimination in the Pacific. This paper examines the application of a GIS-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) to automatically locate and map the distribution of confirmed...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kelly GC,Hale E,Donald W,Batarii W,Bugoro H,Nausien J,Smale J,Palmer K,Bobogare A,Taleo G,Vallely A,Tanner M,Vestergaard LS,Clements AC

更新日期：2013-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the ecology of mosquito larvae can be complex there is need to develop a rational framework for undertaking larval ecological studies. Local environmental characteristics, such as altitude, climate and land use, can significantly impact on phenology and population dynamics of mosquito larvae, and indirect...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Imbahale SS,Paaijmans KP,Mukabana WR,van Lammeren R,Githeko AK,Takken W

更新日期：2011-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping provides the means to develop a practical, rapid, inexpensive assay that will uniquely identify any Plasmodium falciparum parasite using a small amount of DNA. Such an assay could be used to distinguish recrudescence from re-infection in drug trials, to monitor...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Daniels R,Volkman SK,Milner DA,Mahesh N,Neafsey DE,Park DJ,Rosen D,Angelino E,Sabeti PC,Wirth DF,Wiegand RC

更新日期：2008-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are now widely used in the world. Compared to Plasmodium falciparum, a poor sensitivity of RDTs was reported against Plasmodium vivax based on the adopted antibody against pan-Plasmodium antigen lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) or aldolase. Levels of pLDH were measured f...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Jang JW,Cho CH,Han ET,An SS,Lim CS

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Malaria is the largest cause of health services attendance, hospital admissions and child deaths in Tanzania. At the Abuja Summit in April 2000 Tanzania committed itself to protect 60% of its population at high risk of malaria by 2005. The country is, therefore, determined to ensure that sustainable malari...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Magesa SM,Lengeler C,deSavigny D,Miller JE,Njau RJ,Kramer K,Kitua A,Mwita A

更新日期：2005-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfortunately after publication of the original article [1], it came to the author's attention that there is an error in the caption of Fig. 2. ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mwandagalirwa MK,Levitz L,Thwai KL,Parr JB,Goel V,Janko M,Tshefu A,Emch M,Meshnick SR,Carrel M

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very few data on anti-malarial efficacy are available from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC changed its anti-malarial treatment policy to amodiaquine (AQ) and artesunate (AS) in 2005. METHODS:The results of two in vivo efficacy studies, which tested AQ and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) monother...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Bonnet M,Broek Iv,van Herp M,Urrutia PP,van Overmeir C,Kyomuhendo J,Ndosimao CN,Ashley E,Guthmann JP

更新日期：2009-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rosette-formation of Plasmodium falciparum parasitized erythrocytes is of importance in the development of severe malaria. The parasite-derived molecule PfEMP1 (Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1), central to rosetting, is suggested to be included in a multimeric vaccine targeting severe di...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Angeletti D,Albrecht L,Wahlgren M,Moll K

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Plasmodium, the high level of genetic diversity and the interactions established by co-infecting parasite populations within the same host may be a source of selection on pathogen virulence and drug resistance. As different patterns have already been described in humans and mosquitoes, parasite diversity ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mendes C,Salgueiro P,Gonzalez V,Berzosa P,Benito A,do Rosário VE,de Sousa B,Cano J,Arez AP

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The susceptibility of anopheline mosquito species to Plasmodium infection is known to be variable with some mosquitoes more permissive to infection than others. Little work, however, has been carried out investigating the susceptibility of major malaria vectors to geographically diverse tropical isolates of ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Hume JC,Tunnicliff M,Ranford-Cartwright LC,Day KP

更新日期：2007-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Falciparum malaria remains a major occupational illness that accounts for several deaths per year and numerous lost working days among the expatriate population, working or living in high-risk malarious areas. Compliance to preventive strategies is poor in travellers, especially business travellers, expatria...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Roukens AH,Berg J,Barbey A,Visser LG

更新日期：2008-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria during pregnancy is associated with poor maternal and pregnancy outcome and the World Health Organization recommends the administration of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) to all preg...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Salomão C,Sacarlal J,Gudo ES

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regular anti-malarial therapy in pregnancy, a pillar of malaria control, may affect malaria immunity, with therapeutic implications in regions of reducing transmission. METHODS:Plasma antibodies to leading vaccine candidate merozoite antigens and opsonizing antibodies to endothelial-binding and placental-bi...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Teo A,Hasang W,Randall LM,Unger HW,Siba PM,Mueller I,Brown GV,Rogerson SJ

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria remains a major human health problem, with no licensed vaccine currently available. Malaria infections initiate when infectious Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted by Anopheline mosquitoes during their blood meal. Investigations of the malaria sporozoite are, therefore, of clear medical importance...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kennedy M,Fishbaugher ME,Vaughan AM,Patrapuvich R,Boonhok R,Yimamnuaychok N,Rezakhani N,Metzger P,Ponpuak M,Sattabongkot J,Kappe SH,Hume JC,Lindner SE

更新日期：2012-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium ovale, considered the rarest of the malaria parasites of humans, consists of two morphologically identical but genetically distinct sympatric species, Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri. These parasites resemble morphologically to Plasmodium vivax with which they also share a ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Chavatte JM,Tan SB,Snounou G,Lin RT

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data collected in clinical trials have been used to develop scoring systems that identify adults with malaria at greatest risk of death. One of these, the RCAM score, can be simply determined by measuring a patient's Glasgow Coma Score and respiratory rate on admission to hospital. However the safety of usin...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kaung M,Kyi TT,Aung NM,Kyaw MP,Min M,Htet ZW,Anstey NM,Kyi MM,Hanson J

更新日期：2015-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential emergence and spread of resistance to artemisinins in the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite constitutes a major global health threat. Hence, improving the efficacy of artemisinins and of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) represents a major short-term goal in the global fight agai...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Moradin N,Torre S,Gauthier S,Tam M,Hawari J,Vandercruyssen K,De Spiegeleer B,Fortin A,Stevenson MM,Gros P

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past 15 years, mortality and morbidity due to malaria have been reduced substantially in sub-Saharan Africa and local elimination has been achieved in some settings. This study addresses the bio-ecology of larval and adult stages of malaria vectors, Plasmodium infection in Anopheles gambiae s.l. in ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kouassi BL,de Souza DK,Goepogui A,Balde SM,Diakité L,Sagno A,Djameh GI,Chammartin F,Vounatsou P,Bockarie MJ,Utzinger J,Koudou BG

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This meeting report presents the key findings and discussion points of a 1-day meeting entitled 'Fake anti-malarials: start with the facts' held on 28th May 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland, to disseminate the findings of the artemisinin combination therapy consortium's drug quality programme. The teams purchased over 10,...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kaur H,Clarke S,Lalani M,Phanouvong S,Guérin P,McLoughlin A,Wilson BK,Deats M,Plançon A,Hopkins H,Miranda D,Schellenberg D

更新日期：2016-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies in South-East Asia have suggested that early diagnosis and treatment with artesunate (AS) and mefloquine (MQ) combination therapy may reduce the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and the progression of MQ resistance. METHODS:The effectiveness of a fixed-dose combination of AS and MQ (ASM...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Santelli AC,Ribeiro I,Daher A,Boulos M,Marchesini PB,dos Santos RL,Lucena MB,Magalhães I,Leon AP,Junger W,Ladislau JL

更新日期：2012-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colombia contributes a significant proportion of malaria cases in the Americas, which are predominantly rural. However, in the last 8 years ~ 10 % of the endemic municipalities have also reported urban and peri-urban malaria cases, a growing concern for health authorities. This study focused on the character...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Padilla JC,Chaparro PE,Molina K,Arevalo-Herrera M,Herrera S

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is a major health problem in sub-Saharan Africa where over 90% of the world's malaria cases occur. Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is recommended by the World Health Organization as first-line and second-line treatments for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. However, there are a growing nu...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ndwigah S,Stergachis A,Abuga K,Mugo H,Kibwage I

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence and spread of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy in Southeast Asia prompted the need to develop new endoperoxide-type drugs. METHODS:A chemically diverse library of endoperoxides was designed and synthesized. The compounds were screened for in vitro and i...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Lobo L,Cabral LIL,Sena MI,Guerreiro B,Rodrigues AS,de Andrade-Neto VF,Cristiano MLS,Nogueira F

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cases of transfusion-transmitted malaria have been described around the world and highlighted in some studies. Semi-immune individuals are more likely to transmit malaria as they may be asymptomatic. Some countries allow blood donations only based on epidemiological criteria while others reinforce their crit...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Portugal-Calisto D,Ferreira AR,Silva MS,Teodósio R

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid diagnosis and correct treatment of cases are the main objectives of control programs in malaria-endemic areas. METHODS AND RESULTS:To evaluate these criteria and in a comparative study, blood specimens were collected from 120 volunteers seeking care at the Malaria Health Center in Chahbahar district. ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Zakeri S,Najafabadi ST,Zare A,Djadid ND

更新日期：2002-02-08 00:00:00