The incidence of malaria in travellers to South-East Asia: is local malaria transmission a useful risk indicator? (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The presence of ongoing local malaria transmission, identified though local surveillance and reported to regional WHO offices, by S-E Asian countries, forms the basis of national and inter
Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Once malaria occurs, deaths can be prevented by prompt treatment with relatively affordable and efficacious drugs. Yet this goal is elusive in Africa. The paradox of a continuing but easil
The cost-effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) has been shown to decrease clinical malaria by approximately 30% in the first year of life and is a promising malaria control strategy f
<em>Mycobacterium africanum</em>: review of an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa (Publications)
Mycobacterium africanum consists of two phylogenetically distinct lineages within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, known as M. africanum West African 1 and M. africanum West African 2. These li
Malaria and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
There are already 40 cities in Africa with over 1 million inhabitants and the United Nations Environmental Programme estimates that by 2025 over 800 million people will live in urban areas. Recognizin
A novel approach for measuring the burden of uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria: application to data from Zambia (Publications)
Measurement of malaria burden is fraught with complexity, due to the natural history of the disease, delays in seeking treatment or failure of case management. Attempts to establish an appropriate cas
Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Presumptive treatment of all febrile patients with anti-malarials leads to massive over-treatment. The aim was to assess the effect of implementing malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) o
Plasmodium infection alters <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> detoxification gene expression (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Anopheles gambiae has been shown to change its global gene expression patterns upon Plasmodium infection. While many alterations are directly related to the mosquito's innate imm
