Age and seasonal variation in the transition rates and detectability of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
of Plasmodium falciparum infections is unclear, although this is an important term in models of malaria transmission. It is problematical to determine the duration of infections because of the difficulty
An immigration-death model to estimate the duration of malaria infection when detectability of the parasite is imperfect (Publications)
that allows for the accrual of infections with age. The models are fitted to a panel data set of malaria genotype of parasites belonging to the msp2 FC27 and 3D7 allelic families from a study of the dynamics
Associations of peak shifts in age-prevalence for human malarias with bednet coverage (Publications)
Effects of bednet coverage (C) on prevalence of malaria were analysed using data from 1990-92 from 9 Papua New Guinean villages. Effects of coverage varied by age, resulting in a shift in age of peak [...] for Plasmodium falciparum, from 3.4 to 4.9 years for P. vivax and from 11.0 to 16.8 years for P. malariae. In small areas with no bednets the age distribution of P. falciparum parasitaemia was like that [...] mesoendemicity. Thus, protracted use of bednets can result in profound changes in...
Characterising co-infections with <em>Plasmodium </em>spp., <em>Mansonella perstans</em> or <em>Loa loa </em>in asymptomatic children, adults and... (Publications)
Equatorial Guinea are lacking. We aimed to demonstrate that blood retained on malaria rapid diagnostic tests, commonly deployed for malaria surveys, could be used as a source of nucleic acids for molecular based [...] with malaria in an asymptomatic population. METHODOLOGY: M. perstans, L. loa and Plasmodium spp. parasites were monitored by qPCR in a cross-sectional study using DNA extracted from a subset malaria rapid [...] rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) collected during the annual malaria...