Malaria prevention in travelers (Publications)
approach to malaria prevention is to follow the "A, B, C, D" rule: Awareness of risk, Bite avoidance, Compliance with chemoprophylaxis, and prompt Diagnosis in case of fever. The risk of acquiring malaria depends [...] This review discusses the different strategies and drug options available for the prevention of malaria during and post travel
Cost-effectiveness of the introduction of a pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine into the expanded program on immunization in Sub-Saharan Africa: analysis... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of introducing the RTS,S malaria vaccine into the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the contributions of different sources
Malaria importée: des médicaments tourjours plus efficaces et plus sûrs? (Publications)
South-East Asia, this phenomenon has no practical implications for travelers with uncomplicated malaria. The combination of artemether-lumefantrine is still very effective and safe, be it for P. falciparum [...] administration of artesunate has allowed to significantly reducing case fatality rate of severe malaria patients when compared to quinine treatment in endemic areas. Artesunate is also recommended in travelers
Comparison of the Paracheck-Pf test with microscopy, for the confirmation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in Tanzania (Publications)
Tanzania, four of which experience frequent malaria outbreaks. The aim was to verify whether Paracheck-Pf could be a reliable tool for the confirmation of malaria outbreaks in such areas. The overall measurements [...] detection of malaria outbreaks. The cost of the assay (U.S.$0.62/test at the time of the present study) is sufficiently low that its routine use in the confirmation of P. falciparum malaria might also be [...] positive predictive value of 88.9%, and a negative predictive value of...