Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy on placental malaria, maternal anaemia and... (Publications)
areas with different malaria transmission intensities. METHODS: Prospective observational study recruiting pregnant women in two health facilities in areas with high and low malaria transmission intensities [...] risk factors for placental malaria (OR 2.4; CI 1.1-5.0; P = 0.025) and (OR 9.4; CI 3.2-27.7; P < 0.001), respectively. IPTp was associated with a lower risk of placental malaria (OR 0.3; CI 0.1-1.0; P = [...] the low transmission area to prevent one case of placental malaria....
False-negative malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Rwanda: impact of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> isolates lacking <em>hrp2</em> and declining malaria... (Publications)
and the Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) to microscopy (thick smears) for the diagnosis of malaria. PCR was used to determine whether deletions of the histidine-rich central repeat region of the hrp2 [...] CONCLUSION: This prospective study of RDT performance coincided with a decline in the intensity of malaria transmission in Kibirizi (fall in slide positivity from 46 to 3%). This decline was associated with [...] could reduce the impact of false-negative HRP2-based RDTs for detection of...
Estimation of malaria-attributable fever in malaria test-positive febrile outpatients in three provinces of Mozambique, 2018 (Publications)
estimate the proportion of malaria-attributable fevers in malaria test-positive febrile patients. Depending on the antigen, estimated rates of malaria-attributable fever in malaria test-positive febrile patients [...] Like most malaria-endemic countries, Mozambique relies on tabulation of confirmed malaria test-positive febrile patients to track incidence of malaria. However, this approach is potentially biased by [...] indicate that most malaria test-positive febrile patients in the three...
Correction to: Malaria control across borders: quasi-experimental evidence from the Trans-Kunene malaria initiative (TKMI) (Publications)
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged an error in Addition file 6.
Malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence as a measure of malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
association of malaria parasitaemia, anemia, and malariaanemia comorbidity with all-cause under-five mortality and evaluated the potential of malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence to quantify malaria-related [...] utilized to determine the relationship between malaria and mortality in endemic countries. Most of these efforts have focused on deaths directly attributed to malaria, while they overlooked causes of mortality [...] Mortality hazard obtained from malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence...
Assessment of the effect of larval source management and house improvement on malaria transmission when added to standard malaria control strategies... (Publications)
residual spraying (IRS) will be insufficient as stand-alone malaria vector control interventions in many settings as programmes shift toward malaria elimination. Combining additional vector control interventions [...] together with the interventions currently implemented by the Malawi National Malaria Control Programme is anticipated to reduce malaria transmission below the level reached by current interventions alone. I [...] We will implement community-based LSM and HI, as additional...
Self-diagnosis of malaria by travellers: a cohort study on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests provided by a Swiss travel clinic (Publications)
with malaria and self-treated successfully. This strategy allows prompt treatment for malaria in high-risk groups and may avoid over-diagnosis (and subsequent inappropriate treatment) of malaria on-site [...] BACKGROUND: The WHO recommends that all suspect malaria cases be tested before receiving treatment. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for malaria can be performed reliably by community health workers with no [...] procedure on how to perform the test and act on its result. The travellers were...
Epidemiological characterization of malaria in rural southern Tanzania following China-Tanzania pilot joint malaria control baseline survey (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria is an important public health problem in Tanzania. The latest national malaria data suggests rebound of the disease in the country. Anopheles arabiensis, a mosquito species renowned [...] conducted to determine malaria parasite prevalence and associated risk exposures prior to piloting the T3-initiative of World Health Organization integrated with Chinese malaria control experience aimed [...] additional reduction of malaria in the area. METHODS: The study was conducted from...