Research
Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis endemic areas show considerable geographical overlap, leading to incidence of co-infections. This requires treatment with multiple drugs, potentially causing adverse drug–dr...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:422
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Lack of valid and reliable data on malaria deaths continues to be a problem that plagues the global health community. To address this gap, the verbal autopsy (VA) method was developed to ascertain cause of dea...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:421
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Fever case management is a major challenge for improved child health globally, despite existence of cheap and effective child survival health technologies. The integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) inter...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:425
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Bed nets reduce malaria-related illness and deaths, by forming a protective barrier around people sleeping under them. When impregnated with long-lasting insecticide formulations they also repel or kill mosqui...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:423
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Targeted malaria elimination (TME) in Lao PDR (Laos) included three rounds of mass drug administrations (MDA) against malaria followed by quarterly blood surveys in two villages in Nong District at Savannakhet...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:424
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Even if rainfall and temperature are factors classically associated to malaria, little is known about other meteorological factors, their variability and combinations related to malaria, in association with ri...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:420
Published on: 23 October 2017
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Prompt and effective malaria treatment are key in reducing transmission, disease severity and mortality. With the current scale-up of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) coverage, there is need to focu...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:419
Published on: 18 October 2017
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Light microscopy and antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests are the primary diagnostic tools for detecting malaria, although being labour-intensive and frequently challenged by lack of personnel’s experience and...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:418
Published on: 17 October 2017
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Plasmodium knowlesi, a simian malaria parasite, has become the main cause of malaria in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Epidemiological data on malaria for Sarawak has been derived solely f...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:417
Published on: 17 October 2017
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Vietnam has successfully reduced malaria incidence by more than 90% over the past 10 years, and is now preparing for malaria elimination. However, the remaining malaria burden resides in individuals that are h...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:414
Published on: 16 October 2017
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The incidence of malaria due both to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in the Peruvian Amazon has risen in the past 5 years. This study tested the hypothesis that the maintenance and emergence of malaria...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:415
Published on: 16 October 2017
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Malaria programmes use Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 (PfHRP2) based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria diagnosis. The deletion of this target antigen could potentially lead to misdiagnosis...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:416
Published on: 16 October 2017
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Large-scale use of insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying have contributed to a significant decrease in malaria transmission worldwide. Further reduction and progress towards elimination, howeve...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:412
Published on: 13 October 2017
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Malaria transmission in Senegal is highly stratified, from low in the dry north to moderately high in the moist south. In northern Senegal, along the Senegal River Valley and in the Ferlo semi-desert region, a...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:413
Published on: 13 October 2017
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Increasing coverage of malaria vector control interventions globally has led to significant reductions in disease burden. However due to its high recurrent cost, there is a need to determine if and when vector...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:411
Published on: 13 October 2017
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The effectiveness of malaria prevention with long-lasting insecticidal nets and indoor residual spraying is limited by emerging insecticide resistance, evasive mosquito behaviours that include outdoor biting, ...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:410
Published on: 11 October 2017
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Evaluation of local Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission has been investigated previously using the reversible catalytic model based on prevalence of antibody responses to single antigen to estimate serocon...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:409
Published on: 11 October 2017
Correction
After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that the y-axis of Fig. 6 has been labeled incorrectly. It should read “linear predictor”. This has now been corrected in the original ar...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:408
Published on: 11 October 2017
The original article was published in Malaria Journal 2017 16:397
Research
There is growing awareness of the likely impact increased numbers of LLINs will have on the environment, if not disposed of or recycled appropriately. As part of a World Health Organization (WHO) and United Na...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:404
Published on: 10 October 2017
Methodology
Measuring the physical condition of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) under field conditions is of great importance for malaria control programmes to guide decisions on how frequently to replace LLINs. Cu...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:405
Published on: 10 October 2017
Research
Considering the need for new anti-malarial drugs, further investigations on Keetia leucantha (Rubiaceae), an in vitro antiplasmodial plant traditionally used to treat malaria, were carried out. This paper aimed t...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:406
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Imported malaria is a frequent diagnosis in travellers and migrants. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with imported malaria wit...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:407
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: at least 1 million pregnancies among HIV-infected women are complicated by co-infection with malar...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:403
Published on: 6 October 2017
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A recent considerable decline in malaria morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia is likely to be followed by changes in the practice of effective preventive measures and malaria risk factors. This study aimed to i...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:402
Published on: 6 October 2017
Research
DDT was among the initial persistent organic pollutants listed under the Stockholm Convention and continues to be used for control of malaria and other vector-borne diseases in accordance with its provisions o...
Malaria Journal 2017 16:401
Published on: 5 October 2017
