Dramatic declines in seropositivity as determined with crude extracts of Plasmodium falciparum schizonts between 2000 and 2010 in Dielmo and Ndiop, Senegal.

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:Prompt and effective malaria diagnosis not only alleviates individual suffering, but also decreases malaria transmission at the community level. The commonly used diagnostic methods, microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests, are usually insensitive at very low-density parasitaemia. Molecular techniques, on the ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Golassa L,Enweji N,Erko B,Aseffa A,Swedberg G

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past several years, thousands of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified in the genomes of various insects through cloning and sequencing or even by computational prediction. However, the number of miRNAs identified in anopheline species is low and little is known about their role. The mosquito Anop...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Allam M,Spillings BL,Abdalla H,Mapiye D,Koekemoer LL,Christoffels A

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After years of disuse of chloroquine (CQ) as first-line anti-malarial drug in Ghana, reports from molecular studies conducted in parts of the country indicate varying prevalence of T76 mutation in the pfcrt gene. This situation has several health implications, one being that mutations that confer resistance ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Asare KK,Boampong JN,Afoakwah R,Ameyaw EO,Sehgal R,Quashie NB

更新日期：2014-06-26 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:Mice with genetic deficiencies in adaptive immunity are used for the grafting of human cells or pathogens, to study human diseases, however, the innate immune responses to xenografts in these mice has received little attention. Using the NOD/SCID Plasmodium falciparum mouse model an analysis of innate defenc...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Arnold L,Tyagi RK,Mejia P,Van Rooijen N,Pérignon JL,Druilhe P

更新日期：2010-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global malaria control strategies highlight the need to increase early uptake of effective antimalarials for childhood fevers in endemic settings, based on a presumptive diagnosis of malaria in this age group. Many control programmes identify private medicine sellers as important targets to promote effective...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Abuya TO,Mutemi W,Karisa B,Ochola SA,Fegan G,Marsh V

更新日期：2007-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated detection of malaria and dengue infection has been actively researched for more than two decades. Although many improvements have been achieved, these solutions remain too expensive for most laboratories and clinics in developing countries. The low range HORIBA Medical Haematology Analyzer, Yumizen...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dharap P,Raimbault S

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is currently a threat to malaria elimination due to risk of primaquine-induced haemolysis in G6PD deficient individuals. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends G6PD screening before providing primaquine as a radical treatment against vivax malaria. ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Marasini B,Lal BK,Thapa S,Awasthi KR,Bajracharya B,Khanal P,Neupane S,Jha SN,Acharya S,Iama S,Koirala M,Koirala D,Bhandari S,Mahato RK,Chaudhary A,Ghimire P,Magar RG,Bhattarai RK,Gornsawun G,Penpitchaporn P,Bancon

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rethinking Malaria Leadership Forum, held at Harvard Business School in February 2017 with collaboration of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, identified this training gap as a high priority for both analysis and action. The gap in human resource training ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Wirth DF,Casamitjana N,Tanner M,Reich MR

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intermittent screening and treatment (IST) of school children for malaria is one possible intervention strategy that could help reduce the burden of malaria among school children. Future implementation of IST will not only depend on its efficacy and cost-effectiveness but also on its acceptability to par...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Okello G,Ndegwa SN,Halliday KE,Hanson K,Brooker SJ,Jones C

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is a cornerstone of malaria chemoprophylaxis and is considered for programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, SP efficacy is threatened by drug resistance, that is conferred by mutations in the dhfr and dhps genes. The World Health Organization has specified...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： van Lenthe M,van der Meulen R,Lassovski M,Ouabo A,Bakula E,Badio C,Cibenda D,Okell L,Piriou E,Grignard L,Lanke K,Rao B,Bousema T,Roper C

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artesunate plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine is one of the four artemisinin-based combination therapies currently recommended by WHO as first-line treatment for falciparum malaria. Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine is also used for intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy. Drug use patterns and drug...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Gbotosho GO,Happi CT,Sijuade AO,Sowunmi A,Oduola AM

更新日期：2009-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been adopted as the most effective treatment against malaria in many endemic countries like Kenya while quinine has remained the second line. The objective of the current study was to assess access to Kenya's policy recommended anti-malarials, ACT and quinine i...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Watsierah CA,Ouma C

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Passerine birds are frequently infected with diverse haemosporidian parasites. While infections are traditionally considered benign in wild birds, recent studies demonstrated mortalities of passerine species due to exo-erythrocytic development of the parasites, which can damage organs in affected hosts. Howe...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Himmel T,Harl J,Pfanner S,Nedorost N,Nowotny N,Weissenböck H

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug and multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria has existed in Thailand for several decades. Furthermore, Thailand serves as a sentinel for drug-resistant malaria within the Greater Mekong sub-region. However, the drug resistance situation is highly dynamic, changing quickly over time. Here parasi...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Parker D,Lerdprom R,Srisatjarak W,Yan G,Sattabongkot J,Wood J,Sirichaisinthop J,Cui L

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of malaria can be difficult in non-endemic areas, such as the United States, and delays in diagnosis and errors in treatment occur too often. METHODS:A nationwide survey of laboratories in the United States and its nine dependent territories was conducted in 2010 to determine factors that may ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Abanyie FA,Arguin PM,Gutman J

更新日期：2011-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-malarial drugs are an important tool for malaria control and elimination. Alongside their direct benefit in the treatment of disease, drug use has a community-level effect, clearing the reservoir of infection and reducing onward transmission of the parasite. Different compounds potentially have differen...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Bretscher MT,Griffin JT,Ghani AC,Okell LC

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is endemic in the Rajasthali region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Rajasthali region is the most endemic area of Bangladesh. Quantifying the role of environmental and socio-economic factors in the local spatial patterns of malaria endemicity can contribute to successful malaria c...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Haque U,Soares Magalhães RJ,Mitra D,Kolivras KN,Schmidt WP,Haque R,Glass GE

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become the most common diagnostic tool for detection of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, in particular in remote areas. RDT blood spots provide a source of parasite DNA for molecular analysis. In this study, the utility of RDTs for molecular analysis and the performance of di...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Srisutham S,Suwannasin K,Mathema VB,Sriprawat K,Smithuis FM,Nosten F,White NJ,Dondorp AM,Imwong M

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria transmission is strongly determined by the environmental temperature and the environment is rarely constant. Therefore, mosquitoes and parasites are not only exposed to the mean temperature, but also to daily temperature variation. Recently, both theoretical and laboratory work has shown, in addition...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Zhao X,Chen F,Feng Z,Li X,Zhou XH

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prompt and correct diagnosis of malaria is crucial for accurate epidemiological assessment and better case management, and while the gold standard of light microscopy is often available, it requires both expertise and time. Portable fluorescent microscopy using the CyScope offers a potentially quicker, easie...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Sousa-Figueiredo JC,Oguttu D,Adriko M,Besigye F,Nankasi A,Arinaitwe M,Namukuta A,Betson M,Kabatereine NB,Stothard JR

更新日期：2010-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In formerly endemic areas where malaria transmission has declined, levels of population immunity to Plasmodium falciparum provide information on continued malaria transmission and potentially susceptible populations. Traditional techniques for measuring serological responses to P. falciparum antigens use pla...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Chidi AP,Chishimba S,Kobayashi T,Hamapumbu H,Mharakurwa S,Thuma PE,Moss WJ

更新日期：2011-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased control has produced remarkable reductions of malaria in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including Rwanda. In the southern highlands, near the district capital of Butare (altitude, 1,768 m), a combined community-and facility-based survey on Plasmodium infection was conducted early in 2010. METHO...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Gahutu JB,Steininger C,Shyirambere C,Zeile I,Cwinya-Ay N,Danquah I,Larsen CH,Eggelte TA,Uwimana A,Karema C,Musemakweri A,Harms G,Mockenhaupt FP

更新日期：2011-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zoonotic infections with epidemic potential, as non-human primate malaria and yellow fever (YF), can overlap geographically. Optimizing a small blood sample for diagnosis and surveillance is of great importance. Blood are routinely collected for YF diagnosis and blood clots usually discarded after serum obte...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： de Abreu FVS,Gomes LR,Mello ARL,Bianco-Júnior C,de Pina-Costa A,Dos Santos E,Teixeira DS,Brasil P,Daniel-Ribeiro CT,Lourenço-de-Oliveira R,de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz M

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While sub-microscopic malarial infections are frequent and potentially deleterious during pregnancy, routine molecular detection is still not feasible. This study aimed to assess the performance of a Histidine Rich Protein 2 (HRP2)-based ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic test (uRDT, Alere Malaria Ag Pf) for th...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Briand V,Cottrell G,Tuike Ndam N,Martiáñez-Vendrell X,Vianou B,Mama A,Kouwaye B,Houzé S,Bailly J,Gbaguidi E,Sossou D,Massougbodji A,Accrombessi M,Mayor A,Ding XC,Fievet N

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, malaria (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum) has been successfully controlled in the Ecuador-Peru coastal border region. The aim of this study was to document this control effort and to identify the best practices and lessons learned that are applicable to malaria control and to othe...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Krisher LK,Krisher J,Ambuludi M,Arichabala A,Beltrán-Ayala E,Navarrete P,Ordoñez T,Polhemus ME,Quintana F,Rochford R,Silva M,Bazo J,Stewart-Ibarra AM

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is the treatment of choice for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. Artemether-lumefantrine (AL), a fixed dose co-formulation, has recently been approved for marketing in India, although it is not included in the National Drug Policy for treatment of malaria. Efficacy...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Valecha N,Srivastava P,Mohanty SS,Mittra P,Sharma SK,Tyagi PK,Pradhan K,Dev V,Singh R,Dash AP,Sharma YD

更新日期：2009-05-19 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：: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