Plasmodium prevalence and artemisinin-resistant falciparum malaria in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia: a cross-sectional population-based study.

abstract：:The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has supported three household Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) in Madagascar. The results of 13 key malaria indicators from these surveys have been mapped as continuous surfaces using model-based geostatistical methods. The opportunities and limitations of these mapped o...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Howes RE,Hawa K,Andriamamonjy VF,Franchard T,Miarimbola R,Mioramalala SA,Rafamatanantsoa JF,Rahantamalala MAM,Rajaobary SH,Rajaonera HDG,Rakotonindrainy AP,Rakotoson Andrianjatonavalona C,Randriamiarinjatovo DNAL,Randrianasolo

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saglin, a 100 kDa protein composed of two 50 kDa homodimers, is present in the salivary glands of Anopheles gambiae and has been considered an essential receptor for sporozoites (SPZ) of Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium falciparum (Pf), allowing SPZ to recognize, bind to, and infect mosquito salivary glands...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： O'Brochta DA,Alford R,Harrell R,Aluvihare C,Eappen AG,Li T,Chakravarty S,Sim BKL,Hoffman SL,Billingsley PF

更新日期：2019-01-03 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:Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria provide a practical alternative to light microscopy for malaria diagnosis in resource-limited settings. Three-band RDTs incorporating two parasite antigens may have enhanced diagnostic specificity, relative to two-band RDTs with a single parasite antigen (typically h...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Hawkes M,Conroy AL,Opoka RO,Namasopo S,Liles WC,John CC,Kain KC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Widespread resistance of the main malaria vector Anopheles gambiae to pyrethroids reported in many African countries and operational drawbacks to current IRS methods suggest the convenience of exploring new products and approaches for vector control. Insecticide paint Inesfly 5A IGR™, containing two organoph...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mosqueira B,Chabi J,Chandre F,Akogbeto M,Hougard JM,Carnevale P,Mas-Coma S

更新日期：2010-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Togo, the National Malaria Control Programme, in collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has implemented a pilot study for malaria sentinel surveillance since 2017, which consists of collecting information in real time and analysing this information for decision-making....

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Thomas A,Bakai TA,Atcha-Oubou T,Tchadjobo T,Voirin N

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria in Southeast Asia frequently clusters along international borders. For example, while most of Thailand is malaria free, the border region shared with Myanmar continues to have endemic malaria. This spatial pattern is the result of complex interactions between landscape, humans, mosquito vectors, and ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Parker DM,Carrara VI,Pukrittayakamee S,McGready R,Nosten FH

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cascades region, Burkina Faso, has a high malaria burden despite reported high insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN) use. Human and vector activities outside the hours when indoor interventions offer direct protection from infectious bites potentially increase exposure risk to bites from malaria-transmi...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Guglielmo F,Sanou A,Churcher T,Ferguson HM,Ranson H,Sherrard-Smith E

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kenya recently changed its antimalarial drug policy to a specific artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), artemether-lumefantrine (AL). New national guidelines on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention were developed and disseminated to health workers together with in-service training. METHODS:Between...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Wasunna B,Zurovac D,Goodman CA,Snow RW

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding of malaria vector density, distribution, insecticide resistance, vector incrimination, infection status, and identification of sibling species are some of the essential components of vector control measures for achieving malaria elimination goals. METHODS:As part of the malaria elimination dem...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Mishra AK,Bharti PK,Vishwakarma A,Nisar S,Rajvanshi H,Sharma RK,Saha KB,Shukla MM,Jayswar H,Das A,Kaur H,Wattal SL,Lal AA

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) largely account for the scale-up of malaria diagnosis in endemic settings. However, diversity in labelling including the instructions for use (IFU) limits their interchangeability and user-friendliness. Uniform, easy to follow and consistent labelling, aligned with international...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Jacobs J,Barbé B,Gillet P,Aidoo M,Serra-Casas E,Van Erps J,Daviaud J,Incardona S,Cunningham J,Visser T

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the liver for survival of blood-stage malaria is only poorly understood. In experimental blood-stage malaria with Plasmodium chabaudi, protective vaccination induces healing and, thus, survival of otherwise lethal infections. This model is appropriate to study the role of the liver in vaccination...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Al-Quraishy S,Dkhil MA,Al-Shaebi EM,Abdel-Baki AS,Araúzo-Bravo MJ,Delic D,Wunderlich F

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of the ecological differences between the molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae and their sibling species, An. arabiensis might lead to understanding their unique contribution to disease transmission and to better vector control as well as to understanding the evolutionary forces that have separated...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Yaro AS,Dao A,Adamou A,Crawford JE,Ribeiro JM,Gwadz R,Traoré SF,Lehmann T

更新日期：2006-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapy is the first-line anti-malarial treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infection in Angola. To date, the prevalence of polymorphisms in the pfk13 gene, associated with artemisinin resistance, and pfmdr1, associated with lumefantrine resistance, have not been s...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ljolje D,Dimbu PR,Kelley J,Goldman I,Nace D,Macaia A,Halsey ES,Ringwald P,Fortes F,Udhayakumar V,Talundzic E,Lucchi NW,Plucinski MM

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Slash and burn cultivators are a significant risk group for malaria in South-East Asia. As envisaged in the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination, Bangladesh aims to achieve zero indigenous malaria transmission by 2030. For the national plan to move from malaria control to malaria elimination, targ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Saha A,Sarker M,Kabir M,Lu G,Müller O

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Convulsions is one of the key signs of severe malaria among children under five years of age, potentially leading to serious complications or death. Several studies of care-seeking behaviour have revealed that local illness concepts linked to convulsions (referred to as degedege in Tanzanian Kiswahili) calle...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dillip A,Hetzel MW,Gosoniu D,Kessy F,Lengeler C,Mayumana I,Mshana C,Mshinda H,Schulze A,Makemba A,Pfeiffer C,Weiss MG,Obrist B

更新日期：2009-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous study, severe and cerebral malaria have been connected with acute cochlear malfunction in children, demonstrated by a decrease of transitory evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) reproducibility. This study aims to determine whether cochlear malfunction persists for 4 years after recovery from ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Reiterer E,Reider S,Lackner P,Fischer N,Dejaco D,Riechelmann H,Zorowka P,Kremsner PG,Adegnika AA,Schmutzhard E,Schmutzhard J

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: In areas of high-level, year-round malaria transmission, morbidity and mortality due to malaria decrease after the first two to three years of life. This reduction may be related to the development of cellular immunity to specific antigens expressed in the different life-cycle stages of Plasmodium falcipar...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Chelimo K,Sumba PO,Kazura JW,Ofula AV,John CC

更新日期：2003-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of net durability and the average useful life of a net is increasingly recognized as one of the critical factors that determine how often nets need to be replaced. A study to assess the effect of a net care and repair behaviour change communication (BCC) programme on net durability was conduct...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Helinski MH,Namara G,Koenker H,Kilian A,Hunter G,Acosta A,Scandurra L,Selby RA,Mulondo K,Fotheringham M,Lynch M

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:P25 and P28 are related ookinete surface proteins highly conserved throughout the Plasmodium genus that are under consideration as candidates for inclusion in transmission-blocking vaccines. Previous research using transgenic rodent malaria parasites lacking P25 and P28 has demonstrated that these proteins h...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Baton LA,Ranford-Cartwright LC

更新日期：2005-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) World Malaria Report documents substantial progress towards control and elimination of malaria. However, major challenges remain. In some regions of Southeast Asia, the simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has emerged as an important cause of human malaria, and the aut...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Barber BE,Rajahram GS,Grigg MJ,William T,Anstey NM

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are the primary malaria prevention and control intervention in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. While LLINs are expected to last at least 3 years under normal use conditions, they can lose effectiveness because they fall out of use, are discarded, repurposed, physicall...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Briet O,Koenker H,Norris L,Wiegand R,Vanden Eng J,Thackeray A,Williamson J,Gimnig JE,Fortes F,Akogbeto M,Yadouleton AW,Ombok M,Bayoh MN,Mzilahowa T,Abílio AP,Mabunda S,Cuamba N,Diouf E,Konaté L,Hamainza B,Katebe-S

更新日期：2020-08-28 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:Individual malaria interventions provide only partial protection in most epidemiological situations. Thus, there is a need to investigate whether combining interventions provides added benefit in reducing mortality and morbidity from malaria. The potential benefits of combining IPT in children (IPTc) with ho...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Sesay S,Milligan P,Touray E,Sowe M,Webb EL,Greenwood BM,Bojang KA

更新日期：2011-01-07 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：:Recent WHO guidelines recommend a universal "test and treat" strategy for malaria, mainly by use of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) in all areas. The evidence for this approach is questioned here as there is a risk of over-reliance on parasitological diagnosis in high transmission situations, which still exist. In such ar...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Graz B,Willcox M,Szeless T,Rougemont A

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Each year, thousands of cases of uncomplicated malaria are imported into Europe by travellers. Atovaquone-proguanil (AP) has been one of the first-line regimens used in France for uncomplicated malaria for almost ten years. While AP's efficacy and tolerance were evaluated in several trials, its use in "real ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Cordel H,Cailhol J,Matheron S,Bloch M,Godineau N,Consigny PH,Gros H,Campa P,Bourée P,Fain O,Ralaimazava P,Bouchaud O

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-based service delivery is vital to the effectiveness, affordability and sustainability of vector control generally, and to labour-intensive larval source management (LSM) programmes in particular. CASE DESCRIPTION:The institutional evolution of a city-level, community-based LSM programme over 14 y...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Chaki PP,Kannady K,Mtasiwa D,Tanner M,Mshinda H,Kelly AH,Killeen GF

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic formulae in malaria epidemiology are reviewed that relate entomological parameters to malaria transmission, including mosquito survivorship and age-at-infection, the stability index (S), the human blood index (HBI), proportion of infected mosquitoes, the sporozoite rate, the entomological inoculation rate ...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Smith DL,McKenzie FE

更新日期：2004-06-04 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