Cập nhật nghiên cứu về chẩn đoán-điều trị sốt rét đăng tải trên tạp chí quốc tế nổi tiếng năm 2016-2017

Successful malaria elimination in the Ecuador–Peru border region: epidemiology and lessons learned

In recent years, malaria (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum) has been successfully controlled in the Ecuador–Peru coastal border region. The aim of this study was to document this control effort and to i...

Lyndsay K. Krisher, Jesse Krisher, Mariano Ambuludi, Ana Arichabala, Efrain Beltrán-Ayala, Patricia Navarrete, Tania Ordoñez, Mark E. Polhemus, Fernando Quintana, Rosemary Rochford, Mercy Silva, Juan Bazo and Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra

Malaria Journal 2016 15:573

Provider and user acceptability of intermittent screening and treatment for the control of malaria in pregnancy in Malawi

Malaria in pregnancy is a major cause of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. Intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) is one of the control strategies promoted by WHO. In res...

Deborah Almond, Mwayi Madanitsa, Victor Mwapasa, Linda Kalilani-Phiri, Jayne Webster, Feiko ter Kuile and Lucy Paintain

Malaria Journal 2016 15:574

Insight into k13-propeller gene polymorphism and ex vivo DHA-response profiles from Cameroonian isolates

The spread of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin derivatives in Southeast Asia is a major source of concern and the emergence of resistance in Africa would have dramatic consequences, by increasing m...

Sandie Menard, Joëlle Njila Tchoufack, Christelle Ngou Maffo, Sandrine E. Nsango, Xavier Iriart, Luc Abate, Majoline Tchioffo Tsapi, Parfait H. Awono-Ambéné, Francis A. Abega Mekongo, Isabelle Morlais and Antoine Berry

Malaria Journal 2016 15:572

Demographic and clinical profiles of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax patients at a tertiary care centre in southwestern India

Malaria remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in India. Though many comprehensive studies have been carried out in Africa and Southeast Asia to characterize and examine determinants of Plasmodium ...

Laura Chery, Jennifer N. Maki, Anjali Mascarenhas, Jayashri T. Walke, Pooja Gawas, Anvily Almeida, Mezia Fernandes, Marina Vaz, Rakesh Ramanan, Diksha Shirodkar, Maria Bernabeu, Suresh Kumar Manoharan, Ligia Pereira, Rashmi Dash, Ambika Sharma, Riaz Basha Shaik…

Malaria Journal 2016 15:569

The hide and seek of Plasmodium vivax in West Africa: report from a large-scale study in Beninese asymptomatic subjects

Plasmodium vivax is considered to be absent from western Africa, where the prevalence of Duffy-negative red blood cell phenotype proves to be high. Several studies have, however, detec...

Philippe Poirier, Cécile Doderer-Lang, Pascal S. Atchade, Jean-Philippe Lemoine, Marie-Louise Coquelin de l’Isle, Ahmed Abou-bacar, Alexander W. Pfaff, Julie Brunet, Lydia Arnoux, Elodie Haar, Denis Filisetti, Sylvie Perrotey, Nicodeme W. Chabi, Casimir D. Akpovi, Ludovic Anani, André Bigot…

Malaria Journal 2016 15:570

Limitations of malaria reactive case detection in an area of low and unstable transmission on the Myanmar–Thailand border

Reactive case detection is an approach that has been proposed as a tool for malaria elimination in low-transmission settings. It is an intuitively justified approach based on the concept of space–time clusteri...

Daniel M. Parker, Jordi Landier, Lorenz von Seidlein, Arjen Dondorp, Lisa White, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Richard J. Maude and François H. Nosten

Malaria Journal 2016 15:571

Using WeChat official accounts to improve malaria health literacy among Chinese expatriates in Niger: an intervention study

Malaria is the main health risk for Chinese expatriates working in Niger. Health education is a recommended intervention for prevention of malaria among non-immune travellers and expatriate workers. It is urge...

Wei Li, Le Qiang Han, Yan Jun Guo and Jing Sun

Malaria Journal 2016 15:567

Community health workers adherence to referral guidelines: evidence from studies introducing RDTs in two malaria transmission settings in Uganda

Many malaria-endemic countries have implemented national community health worker (CHW) programmes to serve remote populations that have poor access to malaria diagnosis and treatment. Despite mounting evidence...

Sham Lal, Richard Ndyomugenyi, Lucy Paintain, Neal D. Alexander, Kristian S. Hansen, Pascal Magnussen, Daniel Chandramohan and Siân E. Clarke

Malaria Journal 2016 15:568

Evidence of a multiple insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus in South West Nigeria

Knowing the extent and spread of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors is vital to successfully manage insecticide resistance in Africa. This information in the main malaria vector, Anopheles funestus sensu s...

Rousseau J. Djouaka, Seun M. Atoyebi, Genevieve M. Tchigossou, Jacob M. Riveron, Helen Irving, Romaric Akoton, Michael O. Kusimo, Adekunle A. Bakare and Charles S. Wondji

Malaria Journal 2016 15:565

Increasing insecticide resistance in Anopheles funestus and Anopheles arabiensis in Malawi, 2011-2015

Susceptibility of principal Anopheles malaria vectors to common insecticides was monitored over a 5-year period across Malawi to inform and guide the national malaria control programme.

Themba Mzilahowa, Martin Chiumia, Rex B. Mbewe, Veronica T. Uzalili, Madalitso Luka-Banda, Anna Kutengule, Don P. Mathanga, Doreen Ali, John Chiphwanya, John Zoya, Shadreck Mulenga, Wilfred Dodoli, Jennifer Bergeson-Lockwood, Peter Troell, Jessica Oyugi, Kim Lindblade…

Malaria Journal 2016 15:563

Studies on mosquito biting risk among migratory rice farmers in rural south-eastern Tanzania and development of a portable mosquito-proof hut

Subsistence rice farmers in south-eastern Tanzania are often migratory, spending weeks or months tending to crops in distant fields along the river valleys and living in improvised structures known as Shamba huts...

Johnson K. Swai, Marceline F. Finda, Edith P. Madumla, Godfrey F. Lingamba, Irene R. Moshi, Mohamed Y. Rafiq, Silas Majambere and Fredros O. Okumu

Malaria Journal 2016 15:564