Feasibility and acceptability of injectable artesunate for the treatment of severe malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) changed its national policy for the treatment of severe malaria in both children and adults in 2012 from intravenous quinine to injectable artesunate. The country [...] deploy nationwide injectable artesunate as the preferred treatment for the management of severe malaria. To support this process, the feasibility and acceptability of the use of injectable artesunate in [...] CONCLUSIONS: These findings show that the use of injectable artesunate for the...
Clinical determinants of early parasitological response to ACTs in African patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria: a literature review and... (Publications)
baseline values for clearance in patients from Sub-Saharan African countries with uncomplicated malaria treated with artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). METHODS: A literature review in PubMed
Managing the sick child in the era of declining malaria transmission: development of ALMANACH, an electronic algorithm for appropriate use of... (Publications)
based on a respiratory rate threshold of 50 assessed twice for febrile children 12-59 months; iv) malaria rapid diagnostic test performed for all febrile children. In the absence of identified source of
The effect of dosing strategies on the therapeutic efficacy of artesunate-amodiaquine for uncomplicated malaria: a meta-analysis of individual patient... (Publications)
d Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa. We investigated the impact of different dosing strategies on the efficacy of this combination for the treatment of falciparum malaria. METHODS: Individual patient
Applications and limitations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention miniature light traps for measuring biting densities of African malaria... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Measurement of densities of host-seeking malaria vectors is important for estimating levels of disease transmission, for appropriately allocating interventions, and for quantifying their impact [...] methods for their consistency in sampling indoor-feeding mosquitoes belonging to the two major taxa of malaria vectors across Africa, the Anopheles gambiae sensu lato complex and the Anopheles funestus s.l. group [...] easy to deploy on a large scale. Spatial and temporal variation in...
Age-shifting in malaria incidence as a result of induced immunological deficit: a simulation study (Publications)
Effective population-level interventions against Plasmodium falciparum malaria lead to age-shifts, delayed morbidity or rebounds in morbidity and mortality whenever they are deployed in ways that do not [...] shifting of incidence induced by either pre-erythrocytic vaccination (PEV) programmes or seasonal malaria chemo-prevention (SMC), using an ensemble of individual-based stochastic simulation models of P. [...] life-cycle and on human demography. Effects of transmission intensity, and of...
Mit Afrika verwurzelt – die Sängerin und der Malaria-Forscher [Radio Broadcast] (Publications)
Nubyas Vater stammt aus Nigeria. Sie besucht ihn regelmässig in seiner Heimat in Lagos. Der Malaria-Forscher Marcel Tanner verbrachte mit seiner Familie viel Zeit in Kamerun und Tansania. Bei Gastgeber
Tod am Kilombero : Tanners Kampf gegen Malaria [TV Broadcast] (Publications)
Afrika ein Kind an Malaria, weltweit sind es Jahr für Jahr bis zu drei Millionen Menschen. Der Kampf gegen den grössten Killer der dritten Welt scheint aussichtslos. Und doch hat die Malaria einen hartnäckigen [...] einer seiner Malaria-Missionen an den Kilombero begeleitet. Der Fluss im Südwesten Tansanias verwandelt nach jeder Regenzeit ein Gebiet, so gross wie die Westschweiz, in eine wahre Malaria-Hölle. Wer hier [...] hier (über-) lebt, muss jährlich weit über 1'000 Malaria-infizierte...
