A high force of <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> blood-stage infection drives the rapid acquisition of immunity in Papua New Guinean children (Publications)
BACKGROUND: When both parasite species are co-endemic, Plasmodium vivax incidence peaks in younger children compared to P. falciparum. To identify differences in the number of blood stage infections o
Health access livelihood framework reveals potential barriers in the control of schistosomiasis in the Dongting Lake area of Hunan Province, China (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Access to health care is a major requirement in improving health and fostering socioeconomic development. In the People's Republic of China (P.R. China), considerable changes have occurred
Programmatically selected multidrug-resistant strains drive the emergence of extensively drug-resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: South Africa shows one of the highest global burdens of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). Since 2002, MDR-TB in South Africa has been treate
Living on the edge: a longitudinal study of <em>Anopheles funestus</em> in an isolated area of Mozambique (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Understanding the survival strategies of malaria vectors at the edges of their distribution, where they are under stress from environmental conditions, may lead to the development of novel