Synthesis and biological properties of a rhodacyanine derivative, Ssj-127, having high efficacy against malaria protozoa (Publications)
One of rhodacyanine derivatives, SSJ-127 (1), showed a complete cure of a mouse model infected with Plasmodium berghei by subcutaneous administration. The synthesis, in vitro activities against severa
An algorithm for the clinical differentiation of malaria and typhoid: a preliminary communication (Publications)
and malaria are most helpful in distinguishing the two diseases among Papua New Guinean highlanders. In a study of 35 patients with culture-positive typhoid and 49 with blood-slide-positive malaria (Group [...] evaluated in a further group of 34 typhoid patients and 41 malaria patients (Group 2). The sensitivity of the algorithm in diagnosing malaria was 91% in Group 1 and 71% in Group 2, with specificities of
Randomised trial of SPf66 vaccine against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in children in southern Tanzania (Publications)
3 clinical fever episodes per year. Minimum estimated community rates for serious malaria (cerebral malaria or malaria and anaemia) affect approximatively 5% of all children. Under conditions of a field [...] current malaria control strategies using rapid diagnosis and treatment as well as methods to reduce the man-vector contact have had limited success. In Kilombero district (Southern Tanzania), malaria transmission [...] Malaria, especially that due to Plasmodium falciparum, is one of the...
The potential of intermittent irrigation for increasing rice yields, lowering water consumption, reducing methane emissions, and controlling malaria... (Publications)
e for transmission of malaria. The method of irrigation on an intermittent basis during the rice-cropping calendar has gained renewed interest as a potentially effective malaria control strategy since [...] irrigation in the cultivation of rice. This method has been shown to reduce significantly the density of malaria vectors by curtailing their larval development. Furthermore, reduced methane emissions and water
Malaria websites (Publications)
return, 2) the essential on the parasite, the diagnosis and the treatment, 3) the malaria problem worldwide and 4) malaria maps [...] One click on google.com, key-word "Malaria", 24,900,000 entries. How to choose among this jungle of websites? Ten sites are proposed to meet the needs of the general practitioner They are categorized by