Searched for malaria.

1. Treatment-seeking for children with suspected severe malaria attending community health workers and primary health centres in Adamawa State, Nigeria (Publications)

   Treatment-seeking for children with suspected severe malaria attending community health workers and primary health centres in Adamawa State, Nigeria

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   The Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria project investigated the feasibility of introducing pre-referral rectal artesunate into existing community-based health services. In that study, the

2. The troubled puberty of malaria parasites (Publications)

   The troubled puberty of malaria parasites

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   Sexual differentiation of malaria parasites is essential for transmission, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Russell et al. elegantly combined a loss-of-function screen with single-cell

3. Economic and impact modeling to guide introduction of new tools against malaria (Publications)

   Economic and impact modeling to guide introduction of new tools against malaria

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4. Influence of testing modality on bioefficacy for the evaluation of Interceptor® G2 mosquito nets to combat malaria mosquitoes in Tanzania (Publications)

   Influence of testing modality on bioefficacy for the evaluation of Interceptor® G2 mosquito nets to combat malaria mosquitoes in Tanzania

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   against pyrethroid-resistant strains, demonstrating the usefulness of chlorfenapyr in mitigation of malaria.

5. The impact of <em>Loa loa</em> microfilaraemia on research subject retention during a whole sporozoite malaria vaccine trial in Equatorial Guinea (Publications)

   The impact of <em>Loa loa</em> microfilaraemia on research subject retention during a whole sporozoite malaria vaccine trial in Equatorial Guinea

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   300 (2.7%) residents of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, during a Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite malaria vaccine clinical trial. Only one subject was found to have microfilaraemia on his first exam; parasites

6. The phylodynamic and spread of the invasive Asian malaria vectors, <em>Anopheles stephensi</em>, in Sudan (Publications)

   The phylodynamic and spread of the invasive Asian malaria vectors, <em>Anopheles stephensi</em>, in Sudan

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   Anopheles stephensi is an invasive Asian malaria vector that initially emerged in Africa in 2012 and was reported in Sudan in 2019. We investigated the distribution and population structure of An. stephensi

7. Diagnostic performance and comparison of ultrasensitive and conventional rapid diagnostic test, thick blood smear and quantitative PCR for detection... (Publications)

   Diagnostic performance and comparison of ultrasensitive and conventional rapid diagnostic test, thick blood smear and quantitative PCR for detection of low-density <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections during a controlled human malaria infection study

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   BACKGROUND: Progress towards malaria elimination has stagnated, partly because infections persisting at low parasite densities comprise a large reservoir contributing to ongoing malaria transmission and are difficult [...] and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) during a controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) study conducted in malaria exposed adults (NCT03590340). METHODS: Blood samples were collected from healthy [...] administered by direct venous inoculation. qPCR (18s ribosomal...

8. Dynamical malaria modeling as a tool for bold policy-making (Publications)

   Dynamical malaria modeling as a tool for bold policy-making

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9. Sub-national tailoring of malaria interventions in mainland Tanzania: simulation of the impact of strata-specific intervention combinations using... (Publications)

   Sub-national tailoring of malaria interventions in mainland Tanzania: simulation of the impact of strata-specific intervention combinations using modelling

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   2015-2020 national malaria strategic plan (NMSP) and the epidemiological risk stratification at the council level in 2018. METHODS: Intervention mixes, selected by the National Malaria Control Programme [...] either based on estimates from the malaria indicator survey in 2016 or set to a hypothetical target of 85%. A previously calibrated mathematical model in OpenMalaria was used to compare intervention impact [...] BACKGROUND: To accelerate progress against malaria in high burden countries, a...

10. Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children (Publications)

    Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children

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    n of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa has become increasingly stratified following decades of malaria control interventions. The extent to which environmental and land cover risk factors for malaria may differ [...] and could provide actionable targets to maximize the success of malaria control efforts. METHODS: This study used cross-sectional malaria survey data from a nationally representative cohort of school-aged [...] land cover and malaria prevalence within three distinct strata of...