The epidemiology of multiple <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections. 8. Effect of iron supplementation and malaria prophylaxis in infants on... (Publications)
with prospective risk of clinical malaria in children (relative risk = 1.487, P = 0.013). Such an association was also found for the present risk of clinical malaria in infants receiving prophylaxis (odds [...] During a randomized placebo-controlled trial of chemoprophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria and iron supplementation, in infants living under conditions of intense transmission, all samples
Multiplex real-time PCR for the diagnosis of malaria: correlation with microscopy (Publications)
Abstract Malaria is generally diagnosed by microscopy and rapid antigen testing. Molecular methods become more widely used. In the present study, the contribution of a quantitative multiplex malaria PCR was
Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
Half of the population of Africa will soon live in towns and cities where it can be protected from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. Rigorous but affordable and scaleable methods for mapping [...] identification and inclusion of these key areas, as well as more equal distribution of the workload of malaria control field staff. CONCLUSIONS: The procedure developed enables complete coverage of targeted areas [...] affordable, and requires minimal technical skills. This approach...
Force of infection is key to understanding the epidemiology of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in Papua New Guinean children (Publications)
describes basic malaria epidemiology and is suitable for measuring outcomes of interventions. This study was designed to test whether (mol)FOI influenced the risk of clinical malaria episodes and how [...] highlights the suitability of (mol)FOI as a measure of individual exposure and its central role in malaria epidemiology. It has substantial advantages over entomological measures in studies of transmission