Malaria infection prevalence and sensitivity of reactive case detection in Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Reactive case detection (RCD) is a commonly used strategy for malaria surveillance and response in elimination settings. Many approaches to RCD assume detectable infections are clustered within [...] household and up to 9 additional neighboring households. RESULTS: Of 12,487 participants tested by malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT), 3.2% of those residing in index households and 0.4% of those residing [...] Sensitivity of RDT to detect qPCR-detectable infections was 34% (95%CI:...
The epidemiology of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>and <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, pre- and... (Publications)
of local heterogeneity in malaria transmission and the driving factors is critical to identify and implement targeted control strategies to ensure the ongoing success of malaria control in PNG and inform [...] BACKGROUND: In the past decade, national malaria control efforts in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have received renewed support, facilitating nationwide distribution of free long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) [...] households (> 50% of household members with Plasmodium infection). CONCLUSION:...
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
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...
Ist <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>, der Erreger der Malaria tropica, jetzt auch gegen Fansidar resistent? (Publications)
A world-wide increase of malaria infections is observed. Malaria is imported into Switzerland mainly by tourists and recently by refugees from South East Asia. The strains of P. falciparum resistant to [...] patient with P. falciparum infection from Cambodia is reported, who suffered from three episodes of malaria recrudescence within ten weeks, in spite of adequate therapy with quinine and Fansidar. The definition