Forscher im Kampf gegen Malaria [TV Broadcast] (Publications)
Malaria gehört zu den drei schlimmsten Infektionskrankheiten der Welt, neben Tuberkulose und HIV. Basler Wissenschaftler haben eine ganz neue Substanz entdeckt, die den hartnäckigen Erreger töten kann
An affordable, quality-assured community-based system for high-resolution entomological surveillance of vector mosquitoes that reflects human malaria... (Publications)
Y: An intensive and extensive CB system for routine, longitudinal, programmatic surveillance of malaria vectors and other mosquitoes using the Ifakara Tent Trap (ITT-C) was developed in Urban Dar es Salaam [...] surveys using either ITT-C or human landing catches (HLC), as well as a cross-sectional survey of malaria parasite prevalence in the same housing compounds. RESULTS: Community-based ITT-C had much lower
Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites (Publications)
epidemiological differences in malaria mortality. RESULTS: Rates of malaria mortality varied by 1:10,000 across the sites, with generally low rates in Asia (one site recording no malaria deaths over 0.5 million [...] person-years). Childhood malaria mortality rates were strongly correlated with Malaria Atlas Project estimates of Plasmodium falciparum parasite rates for the same locations. Adult malaria mortality rates, while [...] BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious...