Searched for malaria.

1. Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)

   Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: Successful malaria vector control depends on understanding behavioural interactions between mosquitoes and humans, which are highly setting-specific and may have characteristic features in [...] mosquito biting patterns in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania are examined and the protection against exposure to malaria transmission that is afforded to residents by using an insecticide-treated net (ITN) is estimated

2. Bayesian geostatistical modeling of Malaria Indicator Survey data in Angola (Publications)

   Bayesian geostatistical modeling of Malaria Indicator Survey data in Angola

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   2006-2007 Angola Malaria Indicator Survey (AMIS) is the first nationally representative household survey in the country assessing coverage of the key malaria control interventions and measuring malaria-related [...] number of parasitaemic children produced in this paper are important for planning and implementing malaria control interventions and for monitoring the impact of prevention and control activities

3. A methodological framework for the improved use of routine health system data to evaluate national malaria control programs: evidence from Zambia (Publications)

   A methodological framework for the improved use of routine health system data to evaluate national malaria control programs: evidence from Zambia

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   coverage is associated with decreased malaria morbidity and use of health services for malaria illness in Zambia. These methods and results are broadly relevant for malaria program evaluations currently ongoing [...] in areas of lower malaria burden. CONCLUSIONS: When improved through comprehensive parasitologically confirmed case reporting, HMIS data can become a valuable tool for evaluating malaria program scale-up [...] health management information systems (HMIS) have rarely been used for...

4. Predicting the cost-effectiveness of strategies for case management of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)

   Predicting the cost-effectiveness of strategies for case management of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

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5. Low serum folate among persons taking Fansidar (pyrimethamine plus sulfadoxine) for prophylaxis of malaria (Publications)

   Low serum folate among persons taking Fansidar (pyrimethamine plus sulfadoxine) for prophylaxis of malaria

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6. Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling of the relationship between mortality and malaria transmission in rural western Kenya (Publications)

   Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling of the relationship between mortality and malaria transmission in rural western Kenya

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7. The AvecNet Trial to assess whether addition of pyriproxyfen, an insect juvenile hormone mimic, to long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets provides... (Publications)

   The AvecNet Trial to assess whether addition of pyriproxyfen, an insect juvenile hormone mimic, to long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets provides additional protection aganist clinical malaria over current best practice in an area with pyrethroid-resist

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   may enhance malaria control, as well as reducing the spread of pyrethroid-resistant mosquitoes. This trial will determine whether PPF-LLINs provide incremental protection against malaria over current [...] BACKGROUND: Recent reductions in malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have been associated with increased coverage with long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). Pyrethroids are currently the only insecticide class [...] PPF-LLIN (containing 2% permethrin and 1% pyriproxyfen w/w) provide better...

8. Resisting infection by <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> increases the sensitivity of the malaria vector <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> to DDT (Publications)

   Resisting infection by <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> increases the sensitivity of the malaria vector <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> to DDT

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   BACKGROUND: The evolution of insecticide resistance threatens current malaria control methods, which rely heavily on chemical insecticides. The magnitude of the threat will be determined by the phenotypic [...] phenotypic expression of resistance in those mosquitoes that can transmit malaria. These differ from the majority of the mosquito population in two main ways; they carry sporozoites (the infectious stage of [...] Plasmodium parasite) and they are relatively old, as they need to survive...

9. Planning for new health interventions for developing countries: an integrated strategy to prepare for malaria vaccines and lessons for future... (Publications)

   Planning for new health interventions for developing countries: an integrated strategy to prepare for malaria vaccines and lessons for future interventions

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10. The effect of immunization schedule with the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS01E on protective efficacy and anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody... (Publications)

    The effect of immunization schedule with the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS01E on protective efficacy and anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody avidity in African infants

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    BACKGROUND: The malaria vaccine RTS,S induces antibodies against the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP) and the concentration of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) against the repeat region of CSP [...] CSP following vaccination is associated with protection from P. falciparum malaria. So far, only the quantity of anti-CSP IgG has been measured and used to predict vaccination success, although quality [...] following second and third RTS,S/AS01E injection was associated with a 54% risk...