Searched for malaria.

1. Cost implications of improving malaria diagnosis: findings from north-eastern Tanzania (Publications)

   Cost implications of improving malaria diagnosis: findings from north-eastern Tanzania

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   diagnosis of malaria was estimated by comparing the proportion of outpatient attendees of all ages clinically diagnosed as malaria to the proportion of attendees having a positive malaria rapid diagnostic [...] diagnosis of malaria contributes to improper treatment, wastage of drugs and resistance to the few available drugs. This paper attempts to estimate the rates of over diagnosis of malaria among children

2. Beeinflussung des Malaria-Verlaufes bei Kücken durch Tusche-Speicherung im RES (Publications)

   Beeinflussung des Malaria-Verlaufes bei Kücken durch Tusche-Speicherung im RES

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3. Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Tanzania after two years as first-line drug for uncomplicated malaria: assessment protocol and implication... (Publications)

   Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Tanzania after two years as first-line drug for uncomplicated malaria: assessment protocol and implication for treatment policy strategies

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   BACKGROUND: Systematic surveillance for resistant malaria shows high level of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) across eastern and southern parts of Africa. This study

4. Behavioural determinants of gene flow in malaria vector population: <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> males select large females as mates (Publications)

   Behavioural determinants of gene flow in malaria vector population: <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> males select large females as mates

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   transgenic vectors. Fundamental studies of behavioural ecology in malaria vectors such as An. gambiae can have important implications for malaria control and should be prioritised for more extensive investigation [...] BACKGROUND: Plasmodium-refractory mosquitoes are being rapidly developed for malaria control but will only succeed if they can successfully compete for mates when released into the wild. Pre-copulatory [...] structure in wild mosquito populations and mating barriers have foiled...

5. The usefulness of twenty-four molecular markers in predicting treatment outcome with combination therapy of amodiaquine plus... (Publications)

   The usefulness of twenty-four molecular markers in predicting treatment outcome with combination therapy of amodiaquine plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine against falciparum malaria in Papua New Guinea

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   plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) was introduced as first-line treatment against uncomplicated malaria in 2000. METHODS: We assessed in vivo treatment failure rates with AQ+SP in two different areas in

6. Cost-sharing strategies combining targeted public subsidies with private-sector delivery achieve high bednet coverage and reduced malaria transmission... (Publications)

   Cost-sharing strategies combining targeted public subsidies with private-sector delivery achieve high bednet coverage and reduced malaria transmission in Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania

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   insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria prevention in the Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania, since 1996. Here we evaluate resulting changes in bednet coverage and malaria transmission. METHODS: Bednets [...] but now-obsolete technologies available at the time resulted in low insecticide treatment rates. Malaria transmission remained intense but was substantially reduced: Compared with an exceptionally high

7. Preventing childhood malaria in Africa by protecting adults from mosquitoes with insecticide-treated nets (Publications)

   Preventing childhood malaria in Africa by protecting adults from mosquitoes with insecticide-treated nets

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   BACKGROUND: Malaria prevention in Africa merits particular attention as the world strives toward a better life for the poorest. Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) represent a practical means to prevent malaria in [...] targets for ITN coverage beyond vulnerable groups. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Using field-parameterized malaria transmission models, we show that high (80% use) but exclusively targeted coverage of young children

8. Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance (Publications)

   Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance

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   the importance of using complementary methods to estimate the burden of malaria and call for a renewed focus on efficient malaria surveillance

9. Malaria: a major health problem within an oil palm plantation around Popondetta, Papua New Guinea (Publications)

   Malaria: a major health problem within an oil palm plantation around Popondetta, Papua New Guinea

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   023 malaria cases were diagnosed at the aid posts and malaria accounted for 30-40% of all clinical cases. Of the malaria cases, 13-20% were HOP employees. On average, an employee sick with malaria was [...] BACKGROUND: For companies operating in malaria endemic countries, malaria represents a substantial risk to workers and their dependants, and can lead to significantly reduced worker productivity. This [...] 2006. Sleeping outside of the house did not increase the risk of a malaria infection,...

10. What should vaccine developers ask? Simulation of the effectiveness of malaria vaccines (Publications)

    What should vaccine developers ask? Simulation of the effectiveness of malaria vaccines

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    effects of malaria vaccines on malaria transmission, morbidity and mortality. The models are fitted and simulations obtained via volunteer computing. We consider a range of endemic malaria settings with [...] BACKGROUND: A number of different malaria vaccine candidates are currently in pre-clinical or clinical development. Even though they vary greatly in their characteristics, it is unlikely that any of them [...] them will provide long-lasting sterilizing immunity against the malaria parasite....