The synthetic<em> Plasmodium falciparum</em> circumsporozoite peptide PfCS102 as a malaria vaccine candidate: a randomized controlled phase I trial (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Fully efficient vaccines against malaria pre-erythrocytic stage are still lacking. The objective of this dose/adjuvant-finding study was to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunoge
The architecture and effect of participation: a systematic review of community participation for communicable disease control and elimination.... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Community engagement and participation has played a critical role in successful disease control and elimination campaigns in many countries. Despite this, its benefits for malari
Effectiveness of combined intermittent preventive treatment for children and timely home treatment for malaria control (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Whiles awaiting for the arrival of an effective and affordable malaria vaccine, there is a need to make use of the available control tools to reduce malaria risk, especially in children un
The genome of <em>Mycobacterium africanum</em> west African 2 reveals a lineage-specific locus and genome erosion common to the <em>M.... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: M. africanum West African 2 constitutes an ancient lineage of the M. tuberculosis complex that commonly causes human tuberculosis in West Africa and has an attenuated phenotype relative to
The low and declining risk of malaria in travellers to Latin America: is there still an indication for chemoprophylaxis? (Publications)
ABSTRACT: A comparison was made between local malaria transmission and malaria imported by travellers to identify the utility of national and regional annual parasite index (API) in predicting malaria
Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian subcontinent (Publications)
Analysis of malaria imported into eight European countries from the Indian Sub-continent (ISC) (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) led to a consensus statement on the use of chemoprophylaxis w
The incidence of malaria in travellers to South-East Asia: is local malaria transmission a useful risk indicator? (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The presence of ongoing local malaria transmission, identified though local surveillance and reported to regional WHO offices, by S-E Asian countries, forms the basis of national and inter