Paaijmans, Krijn P. Huijben, Silvie
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Malaria Journal
Long-lasting insecticidal nets, or LLINs, have significantly reduced malaria morbidity and mortality over the past two decades. The net provides a physical barrier that decreases human-mosquito contact and the impregnated insecticide kills susceptible mosquito vectors upon contact and may repel them. However, the future of LLINs is threatened as re...
Traore, Mohamad M. Junnila, Amy Traore, Sekou F. Doumbia, Seydou Revay, Edita E. Kravchenko, Vasiliy D. Schlein, Yosef Arheart, Kristopher L. Gergely, Petrányi Xue, Rui-De
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundThe aim of this field trial was to evaluate the efficacy of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) in Mali, where sustained malaria transmission occurs despite the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). ATSB bait stations were deployed in seven of 14 similar study villages, where LLINs were already in widespread use. The combined use...
Xie, Yuewu Liu, Huixiang Sun, Yanhong Xing, Jie
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundNaphthoquine (NQ) is a suitable partner anti-malarial for the artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is recommended to be taken orally as a single-dose regimen. The metabolism of NQ was mainly mediated by CYP2D6, which is well-known to show gender-specific differences in its expression. In spite of its clinical use, there is l...
Coetzee, Maureen
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundIn 1987, Gillies and Coetzee published a pictorial key for the morphological identification of adult female mosquitoes. Since then, several new species of anopheline mosquitoes have been described.MethodsThe 1987 key to adult female mosquitoes was used as the template for the current key.ResultsNew species described in the literature over...
Himmel, Tanja Harl, Josef Pfanner, Simone Nedorost, Nora Nowotny, Norbert Weissenböck, Herbert
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundPasserine 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. However, exo-erythrocytic developme...
Veiga, Maria Isabel Peng, Weng Kung
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Malaria Journal
Malaria is major public health concerns which continues to claim the lives of more than 435,000 people each year. The challenges with anti-malarial drug resistance and detection of low parasitaemia forms an immediate barrier to achieve the fast-approaching United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ending malaria epidemics by 2030. In this Opi...
Feleke, Daniel Getacher Adamu, Aderaw Gebreweld, Angesom Tesfaye, Melkam Demisiss, Wondmagegn Molla, Genet
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundThe effort to reduce the burden of malaria should target transmission in the community by accurate identification of asymptomatic infections. In malaria-endemic areas, asymptomatic malaria infection is still associated with complications. Malaria during pregnancy is characterized by anaemia and placental malaria, leading to low birth weig...
Getachew, Dejene Balkew, Meshesha Tekie, Habte
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundDocumentation of the species composition of Anopheles mosquitoes and characterization of larval breeding sites is of major importance for the implementation of larval control as part of malaria vector control interventions in Ethiopia. The aims of this study were to determine the Anopheles larval species composition, larval density, avail...
Kilonzi, Manase Minzi, Omary Mutagonda, Ritah Baraka, Vito Sasi, Philip Aklillu, Eleni Kamuhabwa, Appolinary
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundDay 7 plasma lumefantrine concentration is suggested as a predictor for malaria treatment outcomes and a cut-off of ≥ 200 ng/ml is associated with day 28 cure rate in the general population. However, day 7 lumefantrine plasma concentration can be affected by age, the extent of fever, baseline parasitaemia, and bodyweight. Therefore, this ...
Acquah, Festus K. Lo, Aminata C. Akyea-Mensah, Kwadwo Abagna, Hamza B. Faye, Babacar Theisen, Michael Gyan, Ben A. Amoah, Linda E.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundAsymptomatic carriage of Plasmodium falciparum is widespread in adults and children living in malaria-endemic countries. This study identified the prevalence of malaria parasites and the corresponding levels of naturally acquired anti-parasite antibody levels in afebrile adults living in two communities in the Greater Accra Region of Ghan...
