Improving malaria home treatment by training drug retailers in rural Kenya (Publications)
Recent global malaria control initiatives highlight the potential role of drug retailers to improve access to early effective malaria treatment. We report on the findings and discuss the implications of [...] of private drug retailers in control strategies aiming to improve prompt effective treatment of malaria
Factors influencing the pattern of imported malaria (Publications)
imported malaria in industrialized areas are known to be incomplete because of underreporting and lack of homogeneity. These facts and the complexity of factors influencing the transmission of malaria render [...] duration of stay on the latency of malaria attacks. African origin and repeated stays were confounders with regard to adherence to chemoprophylaxis. The local situation of malaria transmission and the development [...] to influence the evolution of malaria rates. These factors must be...
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> cerebral malaria complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene: case report... (Publications)
The case of a 56-year-old female tourist who survived cerebral Plasmodium falciparum malaria with disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene, ultimately requiring amputation [...] gangrene has been described rarely in Asian, African, and American patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and disseminated intravascular coagulation, no such case has been reported in travelers returning
Effects of vector-control interventions on changes in risk of malaria parasiotaemia in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial and temporal analysis (Publications)
episodes and deaths due to malaria have been mainly associated with the expansion of vector-control measures, such as insecticide-treated bednets and indoor residual spraying. Malaria indicator surveys gather [...] gather information about key malaria indicators through national representative household surveys. We aimed to estimate changes in risk of malaria parasitaemia at high spatial resolution in sub-Saharan Africa [...] that had publicly available data from two malaria indicator or...
Modeling the cost effectiveness of malaria control interventions in the highlands of western Kenya (Publications)
allow for in silico optimization of available malaria control strategies can assist the decision-making process for prioritizing interventions. The OpenMalaria stochastic simulation modeling platform can [...] Kenya, to support this goal. METHODS: Combinations of malaria interventions were simulated using a previously-published, validated model of malaria epidemiology and control in the study area. An economic [...] economic model of the costs of case management and malaria control interventions...
Metabolic profiling framework for discovery of candidate diagnostic markers of malaria (Publications)
Despite immense efforts to combat malaria in tropical and sub-tropical regions, the potency of this vector-borne disease and its status as a major driver of morbidity and mortality remain undisputed. We