Malaria | Swiss TPH (Page)
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Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 New Malaria Medicines Accept Show More Key Facts About Malaria Malaria is a Major Disease Burden Malaria is a disease caused by parasites [...] Training for Malaria Control and Elimination since 2017. Our focus areas Antimalarial Drug Development Basic Malaria Research Diagnosis and Treatment Malaria Elimination Malaria Host Interactions Malaria Intervention [...] Medicines for Malaria Venture Malaria Consortium RBM Partnership to...
Malaria Intervention Studies (Page)
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levels. Malaria Elimination Surveillance and Health Systems Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) Children with severe malaria need immediate [...] (RADZEC) In countries approaching malaria elimination, individual case-based surveillance and targeted response to individual malaria cases becomes a cornerstone of malaria control and elimination efforts [...] Reactive Case Detection implemented by the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination...
Basic Malaria Research (Page)
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Basic Malaria Research We acquire new functional and mechanistic insight into processes linked to the essential biology of malaria blood stage parasites. These parasite forms are responsible for all m [...] signatures associated with native and adaptive anti-malarial immunity in vivo . Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Project Highlights Scanning electron micrographs of an erythrocyte and [...] Commitment and Early Differentiation of Malaria Transmission Stages The project...
Malaria Vaccines (Page)
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developing resistance to existing malaria drugs, and mosquitoes are developing resistance to insecticides. Malaria vaccines are potential new tools in combating malaria by targeting several different stages [...] decision making boards. Malaria Basic Malaria Research Antimalarial Drug Development Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Malaria Vaccines Swiss TPH has [...] Malaria Vaccines Recently, the malaria burden was successfully reduced as a...
Malaria Elimination (Page)
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Malaria Elimination The malaria map is shrinking. In high burden areas malaria parasite prevalence has been reduced dramatically. Around 100 countries are now free from malaria. According to WHO estimates [...] strategies. Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Malaria Diagnosis in Papua New Guinea Controlling and Eliminating Malaria in Southeast [...] estimates, malaria incidence (the rate of new malaria cases) fell by 37% between...
Socially marketed insecticide-treated nets improve malaria and anaemia in pregnancy in southern Tanzania (Publications)
CONCLUSIONS: A modest impact of ITNs on pregnancy malaria and anaemia was shown in our high malaria transmission setting. The development of ITN programmes for malaria control should include pregnant women as a [...] no anaemia, and of high density, low density and no malaria infection by ITN status. Recently treated nets were most effective at preventing malaria and anaemia (prevalence of mild anaemia was 68% compared [...] OBJECTIVES: To study the uptake of socially marketed...
Environmental predictors of the seasonality of malaria transmission in Africa: the challenge (Publications)
A description of malaria seasonality is important for planning and optimizing malaria control in both time and space, but adequate malariologic data are not available for many disease-endemic areas. We [...] between the seasonal dynamics of environmental determinants and malaria pose a great challenge and highlights the need for improved models of malaria seasonality
Effect of malaria on soluble transferrin receptor levels in Tanzanian infants (Publications)
iron deficiency in malaria endemic areas remains unresolved. Three hundred and fourteen infants in a rural area of southern Tanzania living under conditions of intense and perennial malaria transmission were [...] The diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia in malaria endemic areas is complicated by the influence of the infection on the laboratory tests conventionally used to assess iron status. Determination of soluble [...] plasma levels in the assessment of iron deficiency anemia. Independent of...
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> cerebral malaria complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene: case report... (Publications)
The case of a 56-year-old female tourist who survived cerebral Plasmodium falciparum malaria with disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene, ultimately requiring amputation [...] gangrene has been described rarely in Asian, African, and American patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and disseminated intravascular coagulation, no such case has been reported in travelers returning
