Towards improved uptake of malaria chemoprophylaxis among West African travellers: identification of behavioural determinants.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helminths and malaria are among the most prevalent infectious diseases in the world. They both occur in tropical area where they often affect the same populations. There are studies suggesting an effect of helminths on malariometric indices. For example, malaria attacks as well as disease severity has been s...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ateba-Ngoa U,Adegnika AA,Zinsou JF,Kassa Kassa RF,Smits H,Massinga-Loembe M,Mordmüller B,Kremsner PG,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：2015-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care demand studies help to examine the behaviour of individuals and households during illnesses. Few of existing health care demand studies examine the choice of treatment services for childhood illnesses. Besides, in their analyses, many of the existing studies compare alternative treatment options ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Nonvignon J,Aikins MK,Chinbuah MA,Abbey M,Gyapong M,Garshong BN,Fia S,Gyapong JO

更新日期：2010-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transmission of malaria from man to mosquito depends on the presence of gametocytes, the sexual stage of Plasmodium parasites in the infected host. Naturally acquired antibodies against gametocytes exist and may play a role in controlling transmission by limiting the gametocyte development in the circulation...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Gebru T,Ajua A,Theisen M,Esen M,Ngoa UA,Issifou S,Adegnika AA,Kremsner PG,Mordmüller B,Held J

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensified efforts are urgently needed to contain and eliminate artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the Greater Mekong subregion. Médecins Sans Frontières plans to support the Ministry of Health in eliminating P. falciparum in an area with artemisinin resistance in the north-east of Cambodia. As ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Bosman P,Stassijns J,Nackers F,Canier L,Kim N,Khim S,Alipon SC,Chuor Char M,Chea N,Dysoley L,Van den Bergh R,Etienne W,De Smet M,Ménard D,Kindermans JM

更新日期：2014-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With an Annual Parasite Incidence (API) of 132.1, in the high and moderate risks zones, the Maroni area of French Guiana has the second highest malaria incidence of South-America after Guyana (API = 183.54) and far above Brazil (API = 28.25). Malaria transmission is occurring despite strong medical assistanc...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Fouque F,Gaborit P,Carinci R,Issaly J,Girod R

更新日期：2010-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are used for diagnostic purpose in malaria-endemic areas where reliable microscopy is not available. Persistence of the antigenaemia causes over-diagnosis and may limit the usefulness of the RDT in monitoring treatment. In this study, the usefulness of histidine-rich prot...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Nyunt MH,Kyaw MP,Win KK,Myint KM,Nyunt KM

更新日期：2013-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Real-time PCR is a sensitive and specific method for the analysis of Plasmodium DNA. However, prior purification of genomic DNA from blood is necessary since PCR inhibitors and quenching of fluorophores from blood prevent efficient amplification and detection of PCR products. METHODS:Reagents designed to sp...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Taylor BJ,Martin KA,Arango E,Agudelo OM,Maestre A,Yanow SK

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The counterfeiting of anti-malarials represents a form of attack on global public health in which fake and substandard anti-malarials serve as de facto weapons of mass destruction, particularly in resource-constrained endemic settings, where malaria causes nearly 660,000 preventable deaths and threatens mill...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Karunamoorthi K

更新日期：2014-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulation of malaria parasites remains an inefficient, time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Presented here is a set of methods for 96-well plate-based transfection and culture that improve the efficiency of genetic manipulation of Plasmodium falciparum. Compared to standard protocols plate-based t...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Caro F,Miller MG,DeRisi JL

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intravenous injection of mice with attenuated Plasmodium berghei sporozoites induces sterile immunity to challenge with viable sporozoites. Non-intravenous routes have been reported to yield poor immunity. Because intravenous immunization has been considered to be unacceptable for large scale vaccination of ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Voza T,Kebaier C,Vanderberg JP

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical use of mefloquine (MQ) has declined due to dose-related neurological events. Next generation quinoline methanols (NGQMs) that do not accumulate in the central nervous system (CNS) to the same extent may have utility. In this study, CNS levels of NGQMs relative to MQ were measured and an early le...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dow GS,Milner E,Bathurst I,Bhonsle J,Caridha D,Gardner S,Gerena L,Kozar M,Lanteri C,Mannila A,McCalmont W,Moon J,Read KD,Norval S,Roncal N,Shackleford DM,Sousa J,Steuten J,White KL,Zeng Q,Charman SA

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This opinion article deals with the diagnostic clinical challenges faced by clinicians or health care workers in malaria-endemic areas when a severely sick child presents to the clinic with fever, coma or respiratory distress. Indeed, the coexistence of malaria with other severe infections like meningitis, invasive ba...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ackerman H,Casals-Pascual C

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical profiling of two components for a synthetic peptide-based virosomal malaria vaccine has yielded promising results, encouraging the search for additional components for inclusion in a final multi-valent vaccine formulation. This report describes the immunological characterization of linear and cycliz...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Tamborrini M,Mueller MS,Stoffel SA,Westerfeld N,Vogel D,Boato F,Zurbriggen R,Robinson JA,Pluschke G

更新日期：2009-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anopheles nuneztovari sensu lato comprises cryptic species in northern South America, and the Brazilian populations encompass distinct genetic lineages within the Brazilian Amazon region. This study investigated, based on two molecular markers, whether these lineages might actually deserve species status. M...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Scarpassa VM,Cunha-Machado AS,Saraiva JF

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequently encountered complication of imported Plasmodium falciparum infection. Markers of structural kidney damage have been found to detect AKI earlier than serum creatinine-based prediction models but have not yet been evaluated in imported malaria. This pilot study aims to...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： van Wolfswinkel ME,Koopmans LC,Hesselink DA,Hoorn EJ,Koelewijn R,van Hellemond JJ,van Genderen PJ

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Members of the Anopheles punctulatus group (AP group) are the primary vectors of human malaria in Papua New Guinea. The AP group includes 13 sibling species, most of them morphologically indistinguishable. Understanding why only certain species are able to transmit malaria requires a better comprehension of ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Logue K,Chan ER,Phipps T,Small ST,Reimer L,Henry-Halldin C,Sattabongkot J,Siba PM,Zimmerman PA,Serre D

更新日期：2013-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an urgent need to develop and test novel compounds against malaria infection. Carrageenans, sulphated polysaccharides derived from seaweeds, have been previously shown to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum in vitro. However, they are inflammatory and alter the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, rai...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Recuenco FC,Takano R,Chiba S,Sugi T,Takemae H,Murakoshi F,Ishiwa A,Inomata A,Horimoto T,Kobayashi Y,Horiuchi N,Kato K

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Public health pesticides has been the mainstay control of vectors of malaria and other diseases, and public health pests, but there is increasing concern over how these pesticides are being managed. Poor pesticide management could lead to risks to human health and the environment, or diminish the effectivene...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： van den Berg H,Yadav RS,Zaim M

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The resistance of malaria parasites to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in 2007 led to the Malawi Ministry of Health changing to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) as first-line for uncomplicated malaria treatment. This study determined the efficacy and safety of AL for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium fal...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dambe R,Sande J,Ali D,Chilima B,Dodoli W,Michelo C,Malenga G,Phiri KS

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1486-0.]. ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： DellaValle B,Hempel C,Staalsoe T,Johansen FF,Kurtzhals JAL

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are essential tools in biological research, diagnosis and therapy, and are conventionally produced in murine hybridoma cell lines. Professional applications of mAbs depend on the steady supply of material. Because hybridoma cultures can stop producing the antibody or even die, pr...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kapelski S,Boes A,Spiegel H,de Almeida M,Klockenbring T,Reimann A,Fischer R,Barth S,Fendel R

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The malaria parasite disposes of host-derived ferrihaem (iron(III)protoporphyrin IX, Fe(III)PPIX) by conversion to crystalline haemozoin in close association with neutral lipids. Lipids mediate synthetic haemozoin (β-haematin) formation very efficiently. However, the effect on reaction rates of concentration...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ambele MA,Egan TJ

更新日期：2012-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax preferentially infects Duffy-positive reticulocytes and infections typically have few parasite-infected cells in the peripheral circulation. These features complicate detection and quantification by flow cytometry (FC) using standard nucleic acid-based staining methods. A simple antibody-bas...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Roobsoong W,Maher SP,Rachaphaew N,Barnes SJ,Williamson KC,Sattabongkot J,Adams JH

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficient allocation of financial resources for malaria control and the optimal distribution of appropriate interventions require accurate information on the geographic distribution of malaria risk and of the human populations it affects. Low population densities in rural areas and high population densit...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Tatem AJ,Guerra CA,Kabaria CW,Noor AM,Hay SI

更新日期：2008-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 2010 second edition of WHO's guidelines for the treatment of malaria, the relatively new fixed dose combination dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine is included as one of the recommended artemisinin combination therapies. However, experimental testing demonstrates that, due to its intrinsic chemical instability, dihy...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Jansen FH

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A reversal of chloroquine (CQ) resistance following a period of withdrawal has raised the possibility of its re-introduction. This study evaluated the current prevalence of Pfcrt and Pfmdr1 alleles in Plasmodium falciparum isolates, 11 years after CQ withdrawal in Southeast Nigeria. METHODS:Filter-paper blo...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ikegbunam MN,Nkonganyi CN,Thomas BN,Esimone CO,Velavan TP,Ojurongbe O

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of malaria in the Amazon basin is closely related to social inequalities, given that precarious economic and socio-environmental conditions represent favourable factors for the transmission of the disease in tropical regions, such as the Brazilian state of Pará. In the present study, an associa...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Junior SG,Pamplona VM,Corvelo TC,Ramos EM

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Uganda, over half of under-five child mortality is attributed to three infectious diseases: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Integrated community case management (iCCM) trains village health workers (VHWs) to provide in-home diagnosis and treatment of these common childhood illnesses. For severely ill ch...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： English L,Miller JS,Mbusa R,Matte M,Kenney J,Bwambale S,Ntaro M,Patel P,Mulogo E,Stone GS

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insect vectors, namely mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), are compulsory for malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) to complete their life cycle. Despite this, little is known about vector competence of different mosquito species for the transmission of avian malaria parasites. METHODS:In this study, nested PCR ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Schoener E,Uebleis SS,Butter J,Nawratil M,Cuk C,Flechl E,Kothmayer M,Obwaller AG,Zechmeister T,Rubel F,Lebl K,Zittra C,Fuehrer HP

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria in pregnancy is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Regular surveillance of artemisinin-based combination therapy tolerance, or molecular makers of resistance, is vital for effective malaria treatment, control and eradication programmes. Plasmodium falciparum multiple drug resistanc...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dossou-Yovo LR,Ntoumi F,Koukouikila-Koussounda F,Vouvoungui JC,Adedoja A,Nderu D,Velavan TP,Lenga A

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00