Ensuring transmission through dynamic host environments: host-pathogen interactions in <em>Plasmodium </em>sexual development (Publications)
A renewed global commitment to malaria elimination lends urgency to understanding the biology of Plasmodium transmission stages. Recent progress toward uncovering the mechanisms underlying Plasmodium
Vector-borne diseases in humans and animals: activities of the Swiss Tropical Institut and risks for Switzerland (Publications)
This overview presents the Swiss Tropical Institute's (STI) activities on vector-borne diseases (malaria, trypanosomosis, and leishmaniosis in humans and tick-borne diseases in livestock), describes the
Repurposing know-how for drug development: case studies from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Publications)
of neglected tropical diseases and other infectious diseases of poverty, such as schistosomiasis, malaria and human African trypanosomiasis.
The pharmacokinetics and drug-drug interactions of ivermectin in <em>Aedes aegypti</em> mosquitoes (Publications)
Mosquitoes are vectors of major diseases such as dengue fever and malaria. Mass drug administration of endectocides to humans and livestock is a promising complementary approach to current insecticide-based
Synthesis and antiprotozoal activity of azabicyclo-nonane pyrimidine hybrids (Publications)
protozoan parasites. A series of fused hybrids were synthesized and tested in vitro against pathogens of malaria tropica and sleeping sickness. The activities and selectivities of compounds strongly depended on
Ancistrotanzanine C and related 5,1'- and 7,3'-coupled naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids from <em>Ancistrocladus tanzaniensis</em> (Publications)
and chiroptical methods. The biological activities of the alkaloids against the pathogens causing malaria tropica, leishmaniasis, Chagas' disease, and African sleeping sickness were evaluated
Epimers of bicyclo[2.2.2]octan-2-ol derivatives with antiprotozoal activity (Publications)
s and several of their esters have shown promising activity against the causative organisms for malaria and sleeping sickness. The base-catalyzed epimerization of the alcohols was carried out by different
Quinuclidine derivatives as potential antiparasitics (Publications)
causative organism of human African trypanosomiasis) and Plasmodium falciparum (a causative agent of malaria), but through an unknown mode(s) of action
Tests diagnostiques rapides (TDR): la panacée pour le praticien? (Publications)
implementing a sequential diagnostic strategy to avoid extensive investigations. Using the example of malaria, a new strategy that includes a RDT as first-line emergency diagnostic tool and, when negative, delayed
Immunoglobulin kappa light-chain V, J, and C gene sequences of the owl monkey <em>Aotus nancymaae</em> (Publications)
supports the proposal to use the Aotus Plasmodium falciparum infection model for the evaluation of malaria vaccine candidates