Institutional evolution of a community-based programme for malaria control through larval source management in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In endemic areas, children develop slowly and naturally anti-Plasmodium antibodies and become semi-immune. Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine + amodiaquine (SPAQ) is a new strategy to reduce malaria morbidity in West African young children. However, SMC may impact on the na...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mahaman Moustapha L,Adamou R,Ibrahim ML,Abdoulaye Louis Padounou M,Diallo A,Courtin D,Testa J,Ndiaye JLA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium falciparum merozoite antigens elicit antibody responses in malaria-endemic populations, some of which are clinically protective, which is one of the reasons why merozoite antigens are the focus of malaria vaccine development efforts. Polymorphisms in several merozoite antigen-encoding genes are th...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ochola-Oyier LI,Okombo J,Wagatua N,Ochieng J,Tetteh KK,Fegan G,Bejon P,Marsh K

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper reports on the availability of diagnostic tools and recommended anti-malarials in the 12-month period immediately following the implementation of a new national malaria treatment protocol (NMTP) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Health worker adherence to the new NMTP is also examined and comparisons mad...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Pulford J,Kurumop SF,Ura Y,Siba PM,Mueller I,Hetzel MW

更新日期：2013-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases around the world has decreased substantially over the last 15 years, but with the spread of resistance against anti-malarial drugs and insecticides, this decline may not continue. There is an urgent need to consider alternative, accelerated strategies to elim...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Tun STT,von Seidlein L,Pongvongsa T,Mayxay M,Saralamba S,Kyaw SS,Chanthavilay P,Celhay O,Nguyen TD,Tran TN,Parker DM,Boni MF,Dondorp AM,White LJ

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Control of mosquitoes requires the ability to evaluate new insecticides and to monitor resistance to existing insecticides. Monitoring tools should be flexible and low cost so that they can be deployed in remote, resource poor areas. Ideally, a bioassay should be able to simulate transient contact between mo...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Sternberg ED,Waite JL,Thomas MB

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, a real-time PCR assay known as photo-induced electron transfer (PET)-PCR which relies on self-quenching primers for the detection of Plasmodium spp. and Plasmodium falciparum was described. PET-PCR assay was found to be robust, and easier to use when compared to currently available real-time PCR me...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Lucchi NW,Karell MA,Journel I,Rogier E,Goldman I,Ljolje D,Huber C,Mace KE,Jean SE,Akom EE,Oscar R,Buteau J,Boncy J,Barnwell JW,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：2014-11-26 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:Environmental temperature is an important driver of malaria transmission dynamics. Both the parasite and vector are sensitive to mean ambient temperatures and daily temperature variation. To understand transmission ecology, therefore, it is important to determine the range of microclimatic temperatures exper...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Cator LJ,Thomas S,Paaijmans KP,Ravishankaran S,Justin JA,Mathai MT,Read AF,Thomas MB,Eapen A

更新日期：2013-03-02 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:Recent whole cell in vitro screening campaigns identified thousands of compounds that are active against asexual blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum at submicromolar concentrations. These hits have been made available to the public, providing many novel chemical starting points for anti-malarial drug disco...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Le Manach C,Scheurer C,Sax S,Schleiferböck S,Cabrera DG,Younis Y,Paquet T,Street L,Smith P,Ding XC,Waterson D,Witty MJ,Leroy D,Chibale K,Wittlin S

更新日期：2013-11-16 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:A malaria eradication goal has been proposed, at the same time as a new global strategy and implementation framework. Countries are considering the strategies and tools that will enable progress towards malaria goals. The eliminating malaria case-study series reports were reviewed to identify successful prog...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Smith Gueye C,Newby G,Tulloch J,Slutsker L,Tanner M,Gosling RD

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The close relationship between vector-borne diseases and their environment is well documented, especially for diseases with water-dependent vectors such as avian malaria. Mosquitoes are the primary vectors of avian malaria and also the definitive hosts in the disease life cycle. Factors pertinent to mosquito...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Okanga S,Cumming GS,Hockey PA

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adequate malaria diagnosis and treatment remain major difficulties in rural sub-Saharan Africa. These issues deserve renewed attention in the light of first-line treatment with expensive artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT) and changing patterns of transmission intensity. This study describes diagnostic and...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mwanziva C,Shekalaghe S,Ndaro A,Mengerink B,Megiroo S,Mosha F,Sauerwein R,Drakeley C,Gosling R,Bousema T

更新日期：2008-11-05 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：BACKGROUND:Malaria is heterogeneously distributed across landscapes. Human population movement (HPM) could link sub-regions with varying levels of transmission, leading to the persistence of disease even in very low transmission settings. Malaria along the Thai-Myanmar border has been decreasing, but remains heterogene...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Saita S,Pan-Ngum W,Phuanukoonnon S,Sriwichai P,Silawan T,White LJ,Parker DM

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The WHO has reported that RDT and microscopy-confirmed malaria cases have declined in recent years. However, it is still unclear if this reflects a real decrease in incidence in Bangladesh, as particularly the hilly and forested areas of the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) Districts report more than 80% of all c...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Starzengruber P,Fuehrer HP,Ley B,Thriemer K,Swoboda P,Habler VE,Jung M,Graninger W,Khan WA,Haque R,Noedl H

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine transporter gene (pfcrt) is known to be involved in chloroquine and amodiaquine resistance, and more particularly the mutations on the loci 72 to 76 localized within the second exon. Additionally, new mutations (T93S, H97Y, C101F, F145I, M343L, C350R and G353V) were rece...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Foguim FT,Bogreau H,Gendrot M,Mosnier J,Fonta I,Benoit N,Amalvict R,Madamet M,Wein S,Pradines B,French National Reference Centre for Imported Malaria Study Group.

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring and evaluation of malaria control in pregnancy is essential for assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of health interventions aimed at reducing the major burden of this disease on women living in endemic areas. Yet there is no currently integrated strategic approach on how this should be achieved. Malari...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Brabin BJ,Warsame M,Uddenfeldt-Wort U,Dellicour S,Hill J,Gies S

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The adaptation of malaria vectors to urban areas is becoming a serious challenge for malaria control. The study presents the evolution of pyrethroid resistance in mosquito populations from the cities of Douala and Yaoundé between 2010 and 2013. METHODS:Susceptibility tests to permethrin and deltamethrin wer...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Antonio-Nkondjio C,Tene Fossog B,Kopya E,Poumachu Y,Menze Djantio B,Ndo C,Tchuinkam T,Awono-Ambene P,Wondji CS

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-malarial drugs are now mainly deployed as combination therapy (CT), primarily as a mechanism to prevent or slow the spread of resistance. This strategy is justified by mathematical arguments that generally assume that drug 'resistance' is a binary all-or-nothing genetic trait. Herein, a pharmacological, rather th...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Hastings IM,Hodel EM

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria remains the most important public health problem in tropical and subtropical areas. Mothers' or caregivers' ability to recognize childhood malaria-related morbidity is crucial as knowledge, attitudes and health seeking behavior of caregivers towards childhood malaria could influence response to signs...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Yewhalaw D,Kassahun W,Woldemichael K,Tushune K,Sudaker M,Kaba D,Duchateau L,Van Bortel W,Speybroeck N

更新日期：2010-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria caused by Plasmodium ovale spp. has been neglected by and large from research and has received only little scientific attention during the past decades. Ovale malaria is considered to feature relapses by liver hypnozoites although scientific evidence for this paradigm is scarce. CASE PRESENTATION:He...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Veletzky L,Groger M,Lagler H,Walochnik J,Auer H,Fuehrer HP,Ramharter M

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become an essential tool in the contemporary malaria control and management programmes in the world. This study aims to evaluate the performance of two commonly used RDTs for malaria diagnosis in the China-Myanmar border area. METHODS:A total 606 febrile patients in the Ch...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Yan J,Li N,Wei X,Li P,Zhao Z,Wang L,Li S,Li X,Wang Y,Li S,Yang Z,Zheng B,Zhou G,Yan G,Cui L,Cao Y,Fan Q

更新日期：2013-02-22 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:Inter-individual variability in plasma concentration-time profiles might contribute to differences in anti-malarial treatment response. This study investigated the pharmacokinetics of three different forms of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in Tanzania and Cambodia to quantify and identify potential so...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Staehli Hodel EM,Guidi M,Zanolari B,Mercier T,Duong S,Kabanywanyi AM,Ariey F,Buclin T,Beck HP,Decosterd LA,Olliaro P,Genton B,Csajka C

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is a leading global cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, despite recent advances in treatment and prevention technologies. Scale-up and wide distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) could rapidly decrease malarial disease in endemic area...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dye TD,Apondi R,Lugada ES,Kahn JG,Smith J,Othoro C

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The erythrocytic stage, where malaria parasites proliferate in human blood, is clinically significant as this causes the symptoms and illness of malaria. Experimental rodent models of malaria at the erythrocytic stage are used for the development of anti-malarial drugs and for biological analysis. An automat...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Tougan T,Suzuki Y,Izuka M,Aono K,Okazaki T,Toya Y,Uchihashi K,Horii T

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium infections trigger complex immune reactions from their hosts against several life stages of the parasite, including gametocytes. These immune responses are highly variable, depending on age, genetics, and exposure history of the host as well as species and strain of parasite. Although the effects ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： McQueen PG,Williamson KC,McKenzie FE

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently available diagnostic techniques of Plasmodium falciparum infection are not optimal for non-invasive, population-based screening for malaria. It was hypothesized that a mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approach could identify urinary biomarkers of falciparum malaria. METHODS:The study used a ca...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Abdelrazig S,Ortori CA,Davey G,Deressa W,Mulleta D,Barrett DA,Amberbir A,Fogarty AW

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00