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Plasmodium knowlesi...is a potential cause of severe and fatal malaria, but comprehensive studies of its pooled prevalence...P. knowlesi infection.
Co-infection with both Plasmodium...and dengue virus (DENV) infectious species could have serious and fatal outcomes if left undiagnosed and without timely treatment. The present study aimed to determine the pool...
Significant progress has been made in the last 25 years to reduce the malaria burden, but considerable challenges remain. These ... investments in a range of control measures targeting malaria. Fana and co-author...
Malaria is a major public health problem in ... Migrant populations are at high risk of contracting malaria and its control is more difficult than for settled population. Studies on malaria and migration are rare...
In malaria endemic areas, infected blood donors serve as ... this study was to determine the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in blood donors in Buea, Cameroon ... a rapid diagnostic test (RDT), a malaria antib...
In the Yunnan province of China, 18 counties in six prefectures border Myanmar. Due to its particular combination of geographic features, climate conditions, and cultural landscape, the area provides a suitable e...
Malaria surveillance system strengthening is essential in the progress towards malaria elimination. In Nigeria, more attention is ... study evaluated the operation of the Kano State malaria surveillance system an...
Ethiopia is one of the African countries where Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax...co-exist. Monitoring and evaluation of current malaria transmission status is an important component of malaria control as it is...
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of coinfection with malaria and intestinal parasites, as well as to...
This study examined evolving malaria profiles from January, 2010 to December,...
To successfully eliminate malaria, an integrated system that includes a number ... . Significant progress has been made in reducing malaria incidence through large-scale use of artemisinin- ... to the missing lin...
Malaria remains the most important cause of morbidity ... . This study was carried out to determine malaria prevalence and associated factors among rice farming...
Recent studies have presented conflicting findings about whether malaria is associated with an increased or decreased ... aides to current methods of malnutrition prevention in malaria-endemic areas. Therefore, t...
There is accumulating evidence supporting the use of ivermectin as a malaria control tool. Recent findings from the repeat ivermectin mass drug administrations for control of malaria trial demonstrated a reduced ...
This paper seeks to assess the function of malaria control consultation and service posts (MCCSPs) ... R. China, as a strategy for eliminating malaria among the mobile and migrant population in...
Malaria during pregnancy remains a serious public health ... this study was to determine the prevalence of malaria and possible risk factors for malaria infection among pregnant women in a semi- ... Pregnant wome...
Malaria-related mortality has a very high association ... and middle-income countries. To achieve the malaria-specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, malaria-endemic countries and development partn...
This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and alteration of hematological parameters in malaria patients with a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase ... region of Thailand, an endemic region for malaria.
The issues of pyrethroid resistance and outdoor malaria parasite transmission have prompted the WHO to ... Larval source management is one of the core malaria vector interventions recommended by the Ministry of ....
China has achieved zero indigenous malaria case report in 2017. However, along ... , there is an increasing number of imported malaria cases from Chinese nationals returning from malaria-affected countries. Previ...
For many countries where malaria is endemic, the burden of malaria is high in border regions. In ethnic ... and treatment, and there have been many malaria outbreaks in such areas. Since 2007, ... Global Fund to ...
Plasmodium vivax...is the most geographically widespread species among human malaria parasites. Immunopathological studies have shown that platelets ... component of the host innate immune response against malaria
The elimination of malaria requires high-quality surveillance data to enable ... . Evaluation of the performance of a national malaria surveillance system could identify shortcomings which, if ... addressed, will...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:111
Malaria is a major world health issue and ... tests (RDT) for all cases of suspected malaria. In regions where Plasmodium...species are indigenous, there are multiple etiologies of fever leading to misdiagnoses, ...
Malaria causes significant morbidity and mortality each year. ... In the past few years, the global malaria cases have been declining and many endemic countries are heading towards malaria elimination. Neverthele...
The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:19
The trend of military patients becoming infected with vivax malaria reemerged in the Republic of Korea (ROK...Anopheles...mosquitoes from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have invaded Republic of Korea’s...
Infectious disease diagnostics often requires sensitive molecular assays that identify at both genus and species levels. For large scale screening, such as malaria screening for elimination, diagnostic assay can ...
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests have become a primary and critical tool for malaria diagnosis in malaria-endemic countries where Plasmodium falciparum Histidine Rich Protein 2-based rapid diagnostic tests (PfHRP2-...
New insecticides with a novel mode of action such as neonicotinoids have recently been recommended for public health by WHO. Resistance monitoring of such novel insecticides requires a robust protocol to monitor ...
Vector-borne protozoan diseases represent a serious public health challenge, especially in the tropics where poverty together with vector-favorable climates are the aggravating factors. Each of the various strate...
Annually, 125.2 million pregnant women worldwide risk contracting malaria, including 30.3 million and 1.5 ... of sulphadoxine pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp-SP) ...
While malaria morbidity and mortality have declined since 2000, ... an important, underestimated cause of coma in malaria-endemic Eastern Africa. We aimed to describe...
Disease surveillance systems are essential for effective disease intervention and control by monitoring disease prevalence as time series. To evaluate the severity of an epidemic, statistical methods are widely u...
Cerebral malaria (CM) is a neuropathology which remains one of the deadliest forms of malaria among African children. The kinetics of the...
Malaria transmission can be affected by multiple or ... detecting the relative prevalence and transmission patterns of malaria? What we can note from the existing...transmission networks of malaria. However, such...
Malaria continues to cause burden in various parts ... country, is among those aiming to eliminate malaria within a few years. Two surveys were ... blood spots as an alternative diagnostic method for malaria in t...
The increasing reports of resistance to pyrethroid insecticides associated with reduced efficacy of pyrethroid-only interventions highlight the urgency of introducing new non-pyrethroid-only control tools. Here, ...
Malaria and neglected communicable protozoa parasitic diseases, such ... natural products (MNPs) with potent bioactivity against malaria, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis.
A key issue in achieving and sustaining malaria elimination is the need to prevent local transmission arising from imported cases of malaria. The likelihood of this occurring depends on ... strategy is required t...
The spleen plays a pivotal role in the rapid clearance of parasitized red blood cells in patients with falciparum malaria after artemisinin treatment. Prolonged parasite clearance can ... clearance in a Chinese s...
As Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan countries with a great burden of malaria the effectiveness of first line anti-malarial...Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Ethiopia. This was done by performing...
Interventions are currently being used against ‘infectious diseases of poverty’, which remain highly debilitating and deadly in most endemic countries, especially malaria, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis and Afri...
The China-Myanmar border region presents a great challenge in malaria elimination in China, and it is essential to understand the relationship between malaria vulnerability and population mobility in this region.
Dengue fever (DF) and malaria are the two major public health concerns ... as Thailand. Early differentiation between dengue and malaria could help clinicians to identify patients who ... for signs of dengue hemo...
Fever remains a major public health problem. In Burkina Faso, more than half of febrile children are considered not to be infected by malaria. This study prospectively assessed probable (treatable)...
Understanding the interactions between malaria and agriculture in Tanzania is of particular ... knowledge, perceptions and practices as regards to malaria, climate change, livelihoods and food insecurity...
The China’s 1-3-7 strategy was initiated and extensively adopted in different types of counties (geographic regions) for reporting of malaria cases within 1 day, their confirmation and...
Though many countries, including China, are moving towards malaria elimination, malaria remains a major global health threat. Due ... aims to identify the trends and gaps in malaria R&D in China, and aims to ... ...
From 2007 to 2013, intensive control measures reduced malaria burden by 90 % along the China-...P. falciparum malaria outbreak was reported in the Shan Special...
Anaemia and malaria are common and life-threatening diseases among ... aimed to examine the association of referral clinical malaria with anemia (hemoglobin [Hb] < 110...