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

Plasmodium falciparum: multifaceted resistance to artemisinins

Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins, the most potent and fastest acting anti-malarials, threatens malaria elimination strategies. Artemisinin resistance is due to mutation of...

Lucie Paloque, Arba P. Ramadani, Odile Mercereau-Puijalon, Jean-Michel Augereau and Françoise Benoit-Vical

Malaria Journal 2016 15:149

Trends in US President’s Malaria Initiative-funded indoor residual spray coverage and insecticide choice in sub-Saharan Africa (2008–2015): urgent need for affordable, long-lasting insecticides

This article reports the changing pattern of US President’s Malaria Initiative-funded IRS in sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2015. IRS coverage in sub-Saharan Africa increased from <2 % of the at-risk popu...

Policy analysis for deciding on a malaria vaccine RTS,S in Tanzania

Traditionally, it has taken decades to introduce new interventions in low-income countries. Several factors account for these delays, one of which is the absence of a framework to facilitate comprehensive unde...

Idda Romore, Ritha J. A. Njau, Innocent Semali, Aziza Mwisongo, Antoinette Ba Nguz, Hassan Mshinda, Marcel Tanner and Salim Abdulla

Malaria Journal 2016 15:143

The risk of imported malaria in security forces personnel returning from overseas missions in the context of prevention of re-introduction of malaria to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a malaria-free country. However it remains surrounded by countries with endemic malaria transmission. Since the last indigenous case of malaria was reported in October 2012, only imported malaria ...

Sumadhya Deepika Fernando, Priyani Dharmawardana, Saveen Semege, Geetha Epasinghe, Niroshana Senanayake, Chaturaka Rodrigo and Risintha Premaratne

Malaria Journal 2016 15:144

New molecular settings to support in vivo anti-malarial assays

Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) is now commonly used as a method to confirm diagnosis of malaria and to differentiate recrudescence from re-infection, especially in clinical trials and in reference laborator...

Noemí Bahamontes-Rosa, Ane Rodriguez Alejandre, Vanesa Gomez, Sara Viera, María G. Gomez-Lorenzo, Laura María Sanz-Alonso and Alfonso Mendoza-Losana

Malaria Journal 2016 15:147

Malaria incidence and entomological findings in an area targeted for a cluster-randomized controlled trial to prevent malaria in Ethiopia: results from a pilot study

This study was part of the work to prepare for a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of combining indoor residual spraying and long-lasting insecticidal nets on malaria incidence. A pilo...

Taye Gari, Oljira Kenea, Eskindir Loha, Wakgari Deressa, Alemayehu Hailu, Meshesha Balkew, Teshome Gebre-Michael, Bjarne Robberstad, Hans J. Overgaard and Bernt Lindtjørn

Malaria Journal 2016 15:145

Epidemiologic features of overseas imported malaria in the People's Republic of China

With the dramatic increase in international travel among Chinese people, the risk of malaria importation from malaria-endemic regions threatens the achievement of the malaria elimination goal of China.

Zhongjie Li, Qian Zhang, Canjun Zheng, Sheng Zhou, Junling Sun, Zike Zhang, Qibin Geng, Honglong Zhang, Liping Wang, Shengjie Lai, Wenbiao Hu, Archie C. A. Clements, Xiao-Nong Zhou and Weizhong Yang

Malaria Journal 2016 15:141

Modelling the relative abundance of the primary African vectors of malaria before and after the implementation of indoor, insecticide-based vector control

Malaria remains a heavy burden across sub-Saharan Africa where transmission is maintained by some of the world’s most efficient vectors. Indoor insecticide-based control measures have significantly reduced tra...

Marianne E. Sinka, Nick Golding, N. Claire Massey, Antoinette Wiebe, Zhi Huang, Simon I. Hay and Catherine L. Moyes

Malaria Journal 2016 15:142

Exploring the spatiotemporal drivers of malaria elimination in Europe

Europe once had widespread malaria, but today it is free from endemic transmission. Changing land use, agricultural practices, housing quality, urbanization, climate change, and improved healthcare are among t...

Xia Zhao, David L. Smith and Andrew J. Tatem

Malaria Journal 2016 15:122

B cell sub-types following acute malaria and associations with clinical immunity

Repeated exposure to Plasmodium falciparum is associated with perturbations in B cell sub-set homeostasis, including expansion atypical memory B cells. However, B cell perturbations immediately following acute ma...

Richard T. Sullivan, Isaac Ssewanyana, Samuel Wamala, Felistas Nankya, Prasanna Jagannathan, Jordan W. Tappero, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Mary K. Muhindo, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Moses Kamya, Grant Dorsey, Margaret E. Feeney, Eleanor M. Riley, Chris J. Drakeley and Bryan Greenhouse

Malaria Journal 2016 15:139

Community point distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and community health worker hang-up visits in rural Zambia: a decision-focused evaluation

In 2013, the Zambian Ministry of Health through its National Malaria Control Programme distributed over two million insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) in four provinces using a door-to-door distribution strat...

Paul Wang, Alison L. Connor, Ammar S. Joudeh, Jeffrey Steinberg, Ketty Ndhlovu, Musanda Siyolwe, Bristol Ntebeka, Benjamin Chibuye and Busiku Hamainza

Malaria Journal 2016 15:140

Re-imagining adherence to treatment from the “other side”: local interpretations of adverse anti-malarial drug reactions in the Peruvian Amazon

Patients’ adherence to malaria treatment is a key issue in malaria control and elimination efforts. Previous studies have reported on problems with adherence to anti-malarials, which in part can be related to ...

Joan Muela Ribera, Susanna Hausmann-Muela, Charlotte Gryseels and Koen Peeters Grietens

Malaria Journal 2016 15:136