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Elimination Therapy for the Endemic Malarias

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Most malaria diagnosed outside endemic zones occurs in patients experiencing the consequences of what was likely a single infectious bite by an anopheline mosquito. A single species of parasite is nearly always involved and expert opinion on malaria chemotherapy uniformly prescribes species- and stage-specific treatments. However the vast majority of people experiencing malaria, those resident in endemic zones, do so repeatedly and very often with the involvement of two or more species and stages of parasite. Silent forms of these infections—asymptomatic and beyond the reach of diagnostics—may accumulate to form substantial and unchallenged reservoirs of infection. In such settings treating only the species and stage of malaria revealed by diagnosis and not others may not be sensible or appropriate. Developing therapeutic strategies that address all species and stages independently of diagnostic evidence may substantially improve the effectiveness of the control and elimination of endemic malaria.

View Current Infectious Disease Reports article here

Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:28:32 +0000

View PLoS Medicine article here

Genetic polymorphism and natural selection of Duffy binding protein of Plasmodium vivax Myanmar isolates

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:45:24 +0000

View Malaria Journal article here

Tackling The Malaria "End Game": Regional Needs And Challenges For Successful Malaria Elimination

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:31:00 +0000

View Acta Tropical Issue here

Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:02:52 +0000

View Malaria Journal article here

Medicines for Malaria Venture Press Release: Delivery of child-friendly antimalarial hits the 100 million mark

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:31:42 +0000

View Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) press release here

Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:29:54 +0000

View Malaria Journal article here

Autochthonous plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:34:40 +0000

View Malaria Journal article here

Fake malaria drugs on the rise in Asia-Pacific

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:41:03 +0000

View Pacific Islands News Association article here

Fake malaria drugs on the rise in Asia-Pacific

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:27:55 +0000

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