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  1. The resurgence of the malaria eradication agenda and the increasing number of severe manifestation reports has contributed to a renewed interested in the Plasmodium vivax infection. It is the most geographically ...

    Authors: Marcus VG Lacerda, Maria PG Mourão, Márcia AA Alexandre, André M Siqueira, Belisa ML Magalhães, Flor E Martinez-Espinosa, Franklin S Santana Filho, Patrícia Brasil, Ana MRS Ventura, Mauro S Tada, Vanja SCD Couto, Antônio R Silva, Rita SU Silva and Maria GC Alecrim
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:12
  2. Suriname was a high malaria risk country before the introduction of a new five-year malaria control program in 2005, the Medical Mission Malaria Programme (MM-MP). Malaria was endemic in the forested interior,...

    Authors: Hélène Hiwat, Loretta S Hardjopawiro, Willem Takken and Leopoldo Villegas
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:10
  3. Bhutan has achieved a major reduction in malaria incidence amid multiple challenges. This case study seeks to characterize the Bhutan malaria control programme over the last 10 years.

    Authors: Thinley Yangzom, Cara Smith Gueye, Rinzin Namgay, Gawrie NL Galappaththy, Krongthong Thimasarn, Roly Gosling, Shiva Murugasampillay and Vas Dev
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:9
  4. Long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLITN) have demonstrated a significant effect in reducing malaria-related morbidity and mortality. However, barriers on the utilization of LLITN have hampered the des...

    Authors: Amare Deribew, Zewdie Birhanu, Lelisa Sena, Tariku Dejene, Ayalu A Reda, Morankar Sudhakar, Fessehaye Alemseged, Fasil Tessema, Ahmed Zeynudin, Sibhatu Biadgilign and Kebede Deribe
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:8
  5. The emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to most currently used anti-malarial drugs is a major problem in malaria control along the Thai-Myanmar and Thai-Cambodia borders. Quinine (QN) with tetracycline/...

    Authors: Teera Poyomtip, Nantana Suwandittakul, Narumon Sitthichot, Rommanee Khositnithikul, Peerapan Tan-ariya and Mathirut Mungthin
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:7
  6. Copeptin has recently been identified to be a stable surrogate marker for the unstable hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). Copeptin has been shown to correlate with disease severity in leptospirosis and bacter...

    Authors: Marlies E van Wolfswinkel, Dennis A Hesselink, Ewout J Hoorn, Yolanda B de Rijke, Rob Koelewijn, Jaap J van Hellemond and Perry JJ van Genderen
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:6
  7. The presence of malaria parasites and histopathological changes in the placenta are associated with a reduction in birth weight, principally due to intrauterine growth restriction. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Marcus J Rijken, William E Moroski, Suporn Kiricharoen, Noaeni Karunkonkowit, Gordon Stevenson, Eric O Ohuma, J Alison Noble, Stephen H Kennedy, Rose McGready, Aris T Papageorghiou and François H Nosten
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:5
  8. Malaria control has been scaled up in many developing countries in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Cambodia recently scaled up their Village Malaria Worker (VMW) project by substanti...

    Authors: Junko Yasuoka, Krishna C Poudel, Po Ly, Chea Nguon, Duong Socheat and Masamine Jimba
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:4
  9. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the sugar-or-blood meal choice of Anopheles gambiae females one day after emergence is influenced by blood-host presence and accessibility, nectariferous plant a...

    Authors: Chris M Stone, Bryan T Jackson and Woodbridge A Foster
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:3
  10. To document the status of imported malaria infections and estimate the costs of treating of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of imported malaria in the Slovak Republic during 2003 to 2008.

    Authors: Viera Svihrova, Maria Szilagyiova, Elena Novakova, Jan Svihra and Henrieta Hudeckova
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:1
  11. Understanding the geographical distribution of drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum is important for the effective treatment of malaria. Drug resistance has previously been inferred mainly from records of cli...

    Authors: Yumiko Saito-Nakano, Kazuyuki Tanabe and Toshihiro Mita
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:388
  12. Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria control in infants (IPTi) consists of the administration of a treatment dose of an anti-malarial drug, usually sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, at scheduled intervals, ...

    Authors: Joanna RM Armstrong Schellenberg, Werner Maokola, Kizito Shirima, Fatuma Manzi, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Adiel Mushi, Pedro Alonso, Hassan Mshinda, Marcel Tanner and David M Schellenberg
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:387
  13. Malaria in pregnant women has been shown to be associated with low birth weight, stillbirth and mortality in newborns. The WHO has adopted the use of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) to control malaria, a disea...

    Authors: Emmanuel Osei Tutu, Bernard Lawson and Edmund Browne
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:385
  14. Plasmodium vivax is responsible for the majority of malarial infection in the Indian subcontinent. This species of the parasite is generally believed to cause a relatively benign form of the disease. However, rec...

    Authors: Arjun Sengupta, Soumita Ghosh, Angika Basant, Suhas Malusare, Parul Johri, Sulabha Pathak, Shobhona Sharma and Haripalsingh M Sonawat
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:384
  15. The mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria (CM) syndrome are not well understood. Previous studies have shown a strong association of inflammatory chemokines, apoptotic markers and angiogen...

    Authors: Vidhan Jain, Naomi W Lucchi, Nana O Wilson, Anna J Blackstock, Avinash C Nagpal, Pradeep K Joel, Mrigendra P Singh, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Jonathan K Stiles and Neeru Singh
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:383
  16. Malaria due to both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax is a major public health problem in India. The quantification of malaria transmission for the classification of malaria risk has long been a concern ...

    Authors: Manmohan Shukla, Neeru Singh and Mrigendra P Singh
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:381
  17. This study aimed to explore Plasmodium falciparum population dynamics during the early phase of anti-malarial drug treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy in children with clinical malaria in a high ...

    Authors: Anja M Carlsson, Billy E Ngasala, Sabina Dahlström, Christopher Membi, Isabel M Veiga, Lars Rombo, Salim Abdulla, Zul Premji, J Pedro Gil, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:380
  18. The objective of this study was to implement a rapid assessment of the performance of four malaria control strategies (indoor spraying, insecticide-treated bed nets, timely diagnosis, and artemisinin-based com...

    Authors: Walter Flores, Jaime Chang and Edgar Barillas
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:379
  19. Transmission intensity affects almost all aspects of malaria epidemiology and the impact of malaria on human populations. Maps of transmission intensity are necessary to identify populations at different level...

    Authors: Peter W Gething, Anand P Patil, David L Smith, Carlos A Guerra, Iqbal RF Elyazar, Geoffrey L Johnston, Andrew J Tatem and Simon I Hay
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:378
  20. In Honduras, chloroquine and primaquine are recommended and still appear to be effective for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria. The aim of this study was to determine the proportion ...

    Authors: Irina T Jovel, Rosa E Mejía, Engels Banegas, Rita Piedade, Jackeline Alger, Gustavo Fontecha, Pedro E Ferreira, Maria I Veiga, Irma G Enamorado, Anders Bjorkman and Johan Ursing
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:376
  21. In the search for plant-based mosquito repellents, volatile emanations were investigated from five plant species, Corymbia citriodora, Ocimum suave, Ocimum lamiifolium, Olea europaea and Ostostegia integrifolia, ...

    Authors: Fitsum Fikru Dube, Kassahun Tadesse, Göran Birgersson, Emiru Seyoum, Habte Tekie, Rickard Ignell and Sharon R Hill
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:375
  22. Multi-drug resistance and severe/complicated cases are the emerging phenotypes of vivax malaria, which may deteriorate current anti-malarial control measures. The emergence of these phenotypes could be associa...

    Authors: Surendra K Prajapati, Hema Joshi, Sneh Shalini, Manuel A Patarroyo, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Ashwani Kumar, Surya K Sharma, Alex Eapen, Vas Dev, Rajendra M Bhatt, Neena Valecha, Francois Nosten, Moshahid A Rizvi and Aditya P Dash
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:374
  23. In Uganda, parasite-based diagnosis is recommended for every patient suspected to have malaria before prescribing anti-malarials. However, the majority of patients are still treated presumptively especially in...

    Authors: Vincent Batwala, Pascal Magnussen and Fred Nuwaha
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:373
  24. Current Uganda National Malaria treatment guidelines recommend parasitological confirmation either by microscopy or rapid diagnostic test (RDT) before treatment with artemether-lumefantrine (AL). However, the ...

    Authors: Vincent Batwala, Pascal Magnussen, Kristian S Hansen and Fred Nuwaha
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:372
  25. MSP-1 is one of the potential malarial vaccine candidate antigens. However, extensive genetic polymorphism of this antigen in the field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum represents a major hindrance for the devel...

    Authors: Naly Khaminsou, Onanong Kritpetcharat, Jureerut Daduang, Lertchai Charerntanyarak and Panutas Kritpetcharat
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:371
  26. In malaria endemic areas, individuals are frequently asymptomatic and may be undetected by conventional microscopy or newer, rapid diagnostic tests. Molecular techniques allow a more accurate assessment of thi...

    Authors: Alphaxard Manjurano, Lucy Okell, Tedson Lukindo, Hugh Reyburn, Raimos Olomi, Cally Roper, Taane G Clark, Sarah Joseph, Eleanor M Riley and Chris Drakeley
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:370
  27. Artemisinin-based combination therapy, including artemether-lumefantrine (AL), is currently recommended for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The objectives of the current analysis wer...

    Authors: Quique Bassat, Raquel González, Sónia Machevo, Alain Nahum, John Lyimo, Hamma Maiga, Andreas Mårtensson, Mahfudh Bashraheil, Peter Ouma, David Ubben, Verena Walter, Obiyo Nwaiwu, Chemtai Kipkeu, Gilbert Lefèvre, Bernhards Ogutu and Clara Menéndez
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:369
  28. G6PD deficiency is common in malaria endemic regions and is estimated to affect more than 400 million people worldwide. Treatment of malaria patients with the anti-malarial drug primaquine or other 8-aminoquin...

    Authors: Papichaya Phompradit, Jiraporn Kuesap, Wanna Chaijaroenkul, Ronnatrai Rueangweerayut, Yaowaluck Hongkaew, Rujira Yamnuan and Kesara Na-Bangchang
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:368
  29. Malaria is endemic in the Rajasthali region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Rajasthali region is the most endemic area of Bangladesh. Quantifying the role of environmental and socio-economi...

    Authors: Ubydul Haque, Ricardo J Soares Magalhães, Dipak Mitra, Korine N Kolivras, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Rashidul Haque and Gregory E Glass
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:367
  30. Cerebral malaria is one of the most severe manifestations of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The sequestration of parasitized red blood cells (PRBCs) to brain microvascular endothelium has been shown to contribute...

    Authors: Sirima Kraisin, Izumi Naka, Jintana Patarapotikul, Duangdao Nantakomol, Pornlada Nuchnoi, Hathairad Hananantachai, Naoyuki Tsuchiya and Jun Ohashi
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:366
  31. Paediatric drug formulations for artemisinin combination therapy (P-ACT) have been developed over the past few years and have been shown to improve the therapeutic management of young children with uncomplicat...

    Authors: Selidji T Agnandji, Florian Kurth, Jose F Fernandes, Solange S Soulanoudjingar, Beatrice P Abossolo, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Arti Basra, Raquel González, Gondo Kizito, Pembe I Mayengue, Lorenz Auer-Hackenberg, Saadou Issifou, Bertrand Lell, Ayola A Adegnika and Michael Ramharter
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:365
  32. Malaria is a serious infectious disease. According to the World Health Organization, it is responsible for nearly one million deaths each year. There are various techniques to diagnose malaria of which manual ...

    Authors: Yashasvi Purwar, Sirish L Shah, Gwen Clarke, Areej Almugairi and Atis Muehlenbachs
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:364
  33. Research evidence is not always being disseminated to healthcare providers who need it to inform their clinical practice. This can result in the provision of ineffective services and an inefficient use of reso...

    Authors: Steven J Hoffman, G Emmanuel Guindon, John N Lavis, Godwin D Ndossi, Eric JA Osei, Mintou Fall Sidibe and Boungnong Boupha
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:363
  34. Plasmodium falciparum infection leads to alterations in B cell subset distribution. During infancy, development of peripheral B cell subsets is also occurring. However, it is unknown if infants living a malaria e...

    Authors: Amolo S Asito, Erwan Piriou, Walter GZO Jura, Collins Ouma, Peter S Odada, Sidney Ogola, Nancy Fiore and Rosemary Rochford
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:362
  35. The application of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to the study of vector transmitted diseases considerably improves the management of the information obtained from the field survey and facilitates th...

    Authors: Rohani Ahmad, Wan NWM Ali, Zurainee M Nor, Zamree Ismail, Azahari A Hadi, Mohd N Ibrahim and Lee H Lim
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:361
  36. The World Health Organization has urged all member states to deploy artemisinin-based combination therapy and progressively withdraw oral artemisinin monotherapies from the market due to their high recrudescen...

    Authors: Neelima Mishra, Anupkumar R Anvikar, Naman K Shah, Vineet Kumar Kamal, Surya Kant Sharma, Harish Chandra Srivastava, Manoj Kumar Das, Khageswar Pradhan, Hemant Kumar, Yogendra K Gupta, Pooja Gupta, Aditya Prasad Dash and Neena Valecha
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:360
  37. In clinical trials, immunopotentiating reconstituted influenza virosomes (IRIVs) have shown great potential as a versatile antigen delivery platform for synthetic peptides derived from Plasmodium falciparum antig...

    Authors: Marco Tamborrini, Sabine A Stoffel, Nicole Westerfeld, Mario Amacker, Michael Theisen, Rinaldo Zurbriggen and Gerd Pluschke
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:359
  38. Current malaria control strategies recommend (i) early case detection using rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) and treatment with artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), (ii) pre-referral rectal artesunate, (iii) int...

    Authors: Roger CK Tine, Babacar Faye, Cheikh T Ndour, Jean L Ndiaye, Magatte Ndiaye, Charlemagne Bassene, Pascal Magnussen, Ib C Bygbjerg, Khadim Sylla, Jacques D Ndour and Oumar Gaye
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:358
  39. BRAC, an indigenous non-governmental development organization (NGO), has been implementing a programme to prevent and control malaria in the 13 malaria-endemic districts of Bangladesh since 2007. One of the cr...

    Authors: Syed M Ahmed, Shamim Hossain, Mohammad M Kabir and Sanjit Roy
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:357
  40. Besides significantly reducing malaria vector densities, prolonged usage of bed nets has been linked to decline of Anopheles gambiae s.s. relative to Anopheles arabiensis, changes in host feeding preference of ma...

    Authors: Francis M Mutuku, Charles H King, Peter Mungai, Charles Mbogo, Joseph Mwangangi, Eric M Muchiri, Edward D Walker and Uriel Kitron
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:356
  41. Ownership of insecticidal mosquito nets has dramatically increased in Ethiopia since 2006, but the proportion of persons with access to such nets who use them has declined. It is important to understand indivi...

    Authors: Patricia M Graves, Jeremiah M Ngondi, Jimee Hwang, Asefaw Getachew, Teshome Gebre, Aryc W Mosher, Amy E Patterson, Estifanos B Shargie, Zerihun Tadesse, Adam Wolkon, Richard Reithinger, Paul M Emerson and Frank O Richards Jr
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:354
  42. Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major public health problem. A vital component of malaria control rests on the availability of good quality artemisinin-derivative based combination therapy (ACT) at the co...

    Authors: Paul N Newton, Michael D Green, Dallas C Mildenhall, Aline Plançon, Henry Nettey, Leonard Nyadong, Dana M Hostetler, Isabel Swamidoss, Glenn A Harris, Kristen Powell, Ans E Timmermans, Abdinasir A Amin, Stephen K Opuni, Serge Barbereau, Claude Faurant, Ray CW Soong…
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:352

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