Drug treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy: a critical review of the guidelines.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain species of macaques are natural hosts of Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium cynomolgi, which can both cause malaria in humans, and Plasmodium inui, which can be experimentally transmitted to humans. A significant number of zoonotic malaria cases have been reported in humans throughout Southeast Asia,...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Fungfuang W,Udom C,Tongthainan D,Kadir KA,Singh B

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most malaria-endemic countries have struggled in the past decade to establish effective national-scale continuous distribution mechanisms for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). Since the implementation of the Tanzania National Voucher Scheme in 2004 and mass-distribution campaigns in 2009-2011 and 2015-2016, Tanz...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Yukich J,Stuck L,Scates S,Wisniewski J,Chacky F,Festo C,Kabulika G,Dimoso K,Mandike R,Greer G,Serbantez N,Elisaria E,Nyoni W,Dadi D,Akim I,Lengeler C,Brown N,Koenker H

更新日期：2020-04-17 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:Plasmodium vivax is very rarely seen in West Africa, although specific detection methods are not widely applied in the region, and it is now considered to be absent from North Africa. However, this parasite species has recently been reported to account for most malaria cases in Nouakchott, the capital of Mau...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ba H,Duffy CW,Ahouidi AD,Deh YB,Diallo MY,Tandia A,Conway DJ

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human Plasmodium infections in western Kenya are asymptomatic and are believed to contribute importantly to malaria transmission. Elimination of asymptomatic infections requires active treatment approaches, such as mass testing and treatment (MTaT) or mass drug administration (MDA), as infected persons do not see...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Samuels AM,Awino N,Odongo W,Abong'o B,Gimnig J,Otieno K,Shi YP,Were V,Allen DR,Were F,Sang T,Obor D,Williamson J,Hamel MJ,Patrick Kachur S,Slutsker L,Lindblade KA,Kariuki S,Desai M

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The global health community is interested in the health impact of the billions of dollars invested to fight malaria in Africa. A recent publication used trends in malaria cases and deaths based on health facility records to evaluate the impact of malaria control efforts in Rwanda and Ethiopia. Although the authors dem...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Rowe AK,Kachur SP,Yoon SS,Lynch M,Slutsker L,Steketee RW

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has become an emerging threat to South East Asian countries particular in Malaysia. A recent study from Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) discovered two distinct normocyte binding protein xa (Pknbpxa) types of P. knowlesi. In the present study, the Pknbpxa of clinic...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ahmed MA,Fong MY,Lau YL,Yusof R

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-malarial treatments effectiveness remains a critical challenge for control programmes. However, when drug efficacy is established, the dose is calculated based on a predefined weight according to the patient age. Based on the hypothesis that the standard assumption of weight according to the age when ad...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Djimde M,Samouda H,Jacobs J,Niangaly H,Tekete M,Sombie SB,Mgina EJ,Fofana B,Sagara I,Doumbo OK,Vaillant M,Djimde AA

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

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:In areas where non-falciparum malaria is common rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) capable of distinguishing malaria species reliably are needed. Such tests are often based on the detection of parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH). METHODS:In Dawei, southern Myanmar, three pLDH based RDTs (CareStart Malaria pLDH...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Ashley EA,Touabi M,Ahrer M,Hutagalung R,Htun K,Luchavez J,Dureza C,Proux S,Leimanis M,Lwin MM,Koscalova A,Comte E,Hamade P,Page AL,Nosten F,Guerin PJ

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Artesunate (AS) is a clinically versatile artemisinin derivative utilized for the treatment of mild to severe malaria infection. Given the therapeutic significance of AS and the necessity of appropriate AS dosing, substantial research has been performed investigating the pharmacokinetics of AS and its active metabolit...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Morris CA,Duparc S,Borghini-Fuhrer I,Jung D,Shin CS,Fleckenstein L

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Appropriate case management of suspected malaria in Cambodia is critical given anti-malarial drug resistance in the region. Improving diagnosis and the use of recommended malarial treatments is a challenge in Cambodia where self-treatment and usage of drug cocktails is widespread, a notable difference from m...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： O'Connell KA,Samandari G,Phok S,Phou M,Dysoley L,Yeung S,Allen H,Littrell M

更新日期：2012-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imported cases of multidrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum and treatment failure with artemisinin-based regimens, although rare, have been described also in Western countries and their management is often challenging. This is also due to an inadequate knowledge and implementation of health prevention measur...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Dell'Acqua R,Fabrizio C,Di Gennaro F,Lo Caputo S,Saracino A,Menegon M,L'Episcopia M,Severini C,Monno L,Castelli F,Angarano G

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immunological mechanisms responsible for protection against malaria infection vary among Plasmodium species, host species and the developmental stage of parasite, and are poorly understood. A challenge with live parasites is the most relevant approach to testing the efficacy of experimental malaria vacci...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Leitner WW,Bergmann-Leitner ES,Angov E

更新日期：2010-05-27 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: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: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：: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: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:Primaquine is an important gametocytocidal drug that is combined with conventional malaria treatment for prevention of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission. Primaquine has been administered together on the first or the last day of conventional treatment but the impact of primaquine timing has never bee...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Shekalaghe S,Mosha D,Hamad A,Mbaga TA,Mihayo M,Bousema T,Drakeley C,Abdulla S

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surveillance for drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum should be a component of malaria control programmes. Real-time PCR methods for the detection of parasite single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene amplification could be useful survellance tools. METHODS:A real-time PCR assay has been developed tha...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Purfield A,Nelson A,Laoboonchai A,Congpuong K,McDaniel P,Miller RS,Welch K,Wongsrichanalai C,Meshnick SR

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria transmission in the peri-Iquitos region of Amazonian Peru has been designated as seasonal and hypo-endemic with recently described hyper-endemic hotspots. Despite relatively recent distribution of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets (LLINs), malaria in Amazonian Peru persists and increased substantial...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Moreno M,Saavedra MP,Bickersmith SA,Lainhart W,Tong C,Alava F,Vinetz JM,Conn JE

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

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：: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:Plasmodium vivax is a major cause of malaria and is still primarily treated with chloroquine. Chloroquine inhibits the polymerization of haem to inert haemozoin. Free haem monomers are thought to catalyze oxidative damage to the Plasmodium spp. trophozoite, the stage when haemoglobin catabolism is maximal. H...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Sharrock WW,Suwanarusk R,Lek-Uthai U,Edstein MD,Kosaisavee V,Travers T,Jaidee A,Sriprawat K,Price RN,Nosten F,Russell B

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple red blood cell (RBC) variants appear to offer protection against the most severe forms of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Associations between these variants and uncomplicated malaria are less clear. METHODS:Data from a longitudinal cohort study conducted in 3 sub-counties in Uganda was used to quan...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kakande E,Greenhouse B,Bajunirwe F,Drakeley C,Nankabirwa JI,Walakira A,Nsobya SL,Katureebe A,Rek J,Arinaitwe E,Rosenthal PJ,Kamya MR,Dorsey G,Rodriguez-Barraquer I

更新日期：2020-01-15 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:In 2017, nearly 80% of malaria morbidity and mortality occurred in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and India. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), especially those targeting histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) of Plasmodium falciparum, have become an important diagnostic tool in these malaria-endemic areas. Howe...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Kojom LP,Singh V

更新日期：2020-01-28 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:Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum is often based on detection of histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) in blood. Most HRP2-based assays have high sensitivity and specificity; however, authors have suggested that antibodies (Ab) to HRP2 could reduce assay sensitivity. This study sought to characterize the antibody...

journal_title：Malaria journal

authors： Taylor DW,Bobbili N,Khadka VS,Quakyi IA,Leke RG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00