Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition in schoolchildren in the Kilombero district, South-Eastern Tanzania (Publications)
wasting, and underweight, while logistic regression analyses examined sociodemographic background, malaria infection, anaemia, anthropometric measures, and dietary diversity score as potential factors. The [...] obesity was 11.8%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 11.1%, and 2.0%, respectively. Overall, 1.5% of the children had malaria, as determined by rapid diagnostic tests, and 0.4% had severe anaemia. Univariate analysis indicated
Acceptability and use of insecticide impregnated bednets in northern Ghana (Publications)
washing soaps could improve protection for young children. The success of the promotion of IIBNs in malaria control programmes will depend on the cost of the package and the time of year that it is delivered [...] the intervention in this study, and it should be included as an important component of national malaria control programmes.
PHARE: a bioinformatics pipeline for compositional profiling of multiclonal <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections from long-read Nanopore... (Publications)
detect and track the spread of these clones is crucial for effective malaria control and treatment. However, in endemic settings, malaria infected people often carry multiple P. falciparum clones simultaneously
Clinical trials in low-resource settings: the perspectives of caregivers of paediatric participants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya (Publications)
study investigates the experience of caregivers consenting on behalf of paediatric participants in a malaria vaccine clinical trial where participation enables access to free, high-quality medical care. METHODS: [...] interviewed a total of 78 caregivers of paediatric participants previously enrolled in a phase II or III malaria vaccine clinical trial in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Interviews were qualitative and analysed using
Detection of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infected <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> using near‑infrared spectroscopy (Publications)
demonstrates proof-of-concept that NIRS is capable of rapidly identifying laboratory strains of human malaria infection in African mosquito vectors. CONCLUSIONS: Accurate, low-cost, reagent-free screening of [...] by NIRS could revolutionize surveillance and elimination strategies for the most important human malaria parasite in its primary African vector species. Further research is needed to evaluate how the method
Blood transfusion for severe anaemia in children in a Kenyan hospital [Research letter] (Publications)
Severe anaemia often secondary to malaria is a major contributor to child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. We have confirmed that use of simple clinical and laboratory criteria can identify those children
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> genotypes and efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
Intermittent preventive treatment of infants (IPTi) reduces early-childhood malaria-related morbidity. While genotypic drug resistance markers have proven useful in predicting the efficacy of antimalarial
Co-occurrence of common chronic infections and common non-communicable diseasess in rural and urben C (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/co-occurrence-of-common-chronic-infections-and-common-non-communicable-diseasess-in-rural-and-urben-c
many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Even for highly prevalent IDs (e.g. helminthiases and malaria) and NCDs (e.g. hypertension and diabetes) very little is known about how they influence each other [...] co-occurrence and mutual influence of highly prevalent chronic and sub chronic helminth infections and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa with increasingly prevalent NCDs (e.g. hypertension and diabetes), the Taabo [...] this gap. Goal: To deepen our understanding of the dual burden of...
A single LC-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of 14 antimalarial drugs and their metabolites in human plasma (Publications)
determinants of treatment response, the achievement of sufficient blood levels is essential for curing malaria. For helping us at improving our current understanding of antimalarial drugs pharmacokinetics, efficacy [...] their metabolites which are the components of the current first-line combination treatments for malaria (artemether, artesunate, dihydroartemisinin, amodiaquine, N-desethyl-amodiaquine, lumefantrine, [...] endoperoxide-containing antimalarials in the presence of hemolysis was...
Characterization of novel antimalarial compound ACT-451840: preclinical assessment of activity and dose-efficacy modeling (Publications)
cycle stages of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (asexual and sexual) and Plasmodium vivax (asexual) as well as oral in vivo efficacies in two murine malaria models that permit infection [...] determination of the dose-efficacy relationship of ACT-451840 under curative conditions in rodent malaria models allowed prediction of the human efficacious exposure. CONCLUSION: The dual activity of ACT-451840