Determining important parameters in the spread of malaria through the sensitivity analysis of a mathematical model (Publications)
We perform sensitivity analyses on a mathematical model of malaria transmission to determine the relative importance of model parameters to disease transmission and prevalence. We compile two sets of baseline [...] as the prompt diagnosis and treatment of infectious individuals) can be successful in controlling malaria
Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
clinical cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, hospital admissions for infection with malaria parasites and malaria-associated death for different levels of malaria transmission intensity and seasonality [...] with the severity of the malaria outcome and with transmission intensity. The decision-support tool, available on the Internet, provides estimates of the percentage of malaria-associated deaths, hospi [...] effectiveness of IPTi varies with malaria transmission intensity and seasonality....
Pharmacotherapy, vaccines and malaria advice for HIV-infected travellers (Publications)
acquired during travel may be more frequent or severe. Challenges include the best options for malaria chemoprophylaxis, standby treatment and medical follow-up of the increasing number of HIV-infected
Synthetic ozonide drug candidate OZ439 offers new hope for a single-dose cure of uncomplicated malaria (Publications)
it was shown to be safe at doses up to 1,600 mg and is currently undergoing Phase IIa trials in malaria patients. Herein, we describe the discovery of OZ439 and the exceptional antimalarial and pharmacokinetic
A periodically-forced mathematical model for the seasonal dynamics of malaria in mosquitoes (Publications)
orbits of field-measurable quantities that measure malaria transmission. We integrate this model with an individual-based stochastic simulation model for malaria in humans to compare the effects of insectic [...] interventions reduce transmission and prevalence, they can lead to increased clinical malaria; and all three malaria indicators return to preintervention levels within 3 years after the interventions are [...] We describe and analyze a periodically-forced difference equation model for m...
Developmental impairments following severe falciparum malaria in children (Publications)
complications of falciparum malaria, such as multiple, prolonged or focal seizures, is not known. Thus, our objective was to investigate the long-term developmental outcome of CM and malaria with complicated seizures [...] OBJECTIVE: Neurological deficits are reported in children after cerebral malaria (CM) but little is known about the prevalence and characteristics of persisting neurocognitive consequences. The prevalence [...] y increases the risk of cognitive and behavioural problems in...