Diagnostic de malaria chez le praticien: comment gérer (Publications)
Malaria is the disease to exclude when dealing with a patient coming back from an endemic area with fever. We need reliable diagnostic tools with negative likelihood ratio (LR-) close to zero (-> high [...] 08 (estimated in a meta-analysis of RDT in non-immune travelers), the probability of falciparum malaria is 1% after a negative RDT. When the RDT is positive, the patient should always be treated with an
Meta-analysis: accuracy of rapid tests for malaria in travelers returning from endemic areas (Publications)
PURPOSE: To determine the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for ruling out malaria in nonimmune travelers returning from malaria-endemic areas. DATA SOURCES: The authors searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CAB Health [...] diagnosis of P. malariae or P. ovale were close to 1.0 for both types of tests. In febrile travelers returning from sub-Saharan Africa, the typical probability of P. falciparum malaria is estimated at [...] of rapid diagnostic tests improves outcomes in returning travelers with...
Starting at the community: treatment seeking pathways of children with suspected severe malaria in Uganda (Publications)
five years with suspected severe malaria. Methods: An observational study in Uganda enrolled children below five years presenting to CHWs with signs of severe malaria. Children were followed up 28 days [...] Introduction: Community health workers (CHW) usually refer children with suspected severe malaria to the nearest public health facility or a designated public referral health facility (RHF). Caregivers
World Malaria Day 2021: In the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic (Page)
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achieved in the global fight against malaria. In the last decades, 7.6 million malaria deaths have been prevented and over 20 countries have been declared malaria-free . Furthermore, a new group of 26 [...] the potential to eliminate malaria by 2025. This shows that a world without malaria could become reality in just one generation. Meanwhile, progress in the fight against malaria has stagnated . To ensure [...] Corona virus on malaria control. Among other things, measures were taken to...
SumayaVac-1: Clinical Trial for New Malaria Vaccine (Page)
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SumayaVac-1: Clinical Trial for New Malaria Vaccine About Malaria Despite being preventable and curable, malaria continues to pose a significant burden in tropical and subtropical regions. This life-t [...] children and adults from getting a malaria infection, especially in malaria endemic countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. RTS,S and R21 are both first generation malaria vaccines targeting the circu [...] generation malaria vaccines might be a combination of two or more protein...
Malaria | Swiss TPH (Page)
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Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 New Malaria Medicines Accept Show More Key Facts About Malaria Malaria is a Major Disease Burden Malaria is a disease caused by parasites [...] Training for Malaria Control and Elimination since 2017. Our focus areas Antimalarial Drug Development Basic Malaria Research Diagnosis and Treatment Malaria Elimination Malaria Host Interactions Malaria Intervention [...] Medicines for Malaria Venture Malaria Consortium RBM Partnership to...
Basic Malaria Research (Page)
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Basic Malaria Research We acquire new functional and mechanistic insight into processes linked to the essential biology of malaria blood stage parasites. These parasite forms are responsible for all m [...] signatures associated with native and adaptive anti-malarial immunity in vivo . Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Project Highlights Scanning electron micrographs of an erythrocyte and [...] Commitment and Early Differentiation of Malaria Transmission Stages The project...
Malaria Elimination (Page)
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Malaria Elimination The malaria map is shrinking. In high burden areas malaria parasite prevalence has been reduced dramatically. Around 100 countries are now free from malaria. According to WHO estimates [...] strategies. Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Malaria Diagnosis in Papua New Guinea Controlling and Eliminating Malaria in Southeast [...] estimates, malaria incidence (the rate of new malaria cases) fell by 37% between...
Malaria Intervention Studies (Page)
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levels. Malaria Elimination Surveillance and Health Systems Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) Children with severe malaria need immediate [...] (RADZEC) In countries approaching malaria elimination, individual case-based surveillance and targeted response to individual malaria cases becomes a cornerstone of malaria control and elimination efforts [...] Reactive Case Detection implemented by the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination...