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Dry season occurrence of Anopheles mosquitoes and implications in Jabi Tehnan District, West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Generating evidence on the dry season occurrence of the larval and adult stages of Anopheles mosquitoes helps to design …
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High purity high yield tandem B and T helper cell isolation for qRT-PCR analysis suitable for basically equipped laboratories
BACKGROUND: Malaria is still a major health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia, but research on malaria in low-income …
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Can malaria rapid diagnostic tests by drug sellers under field conditions classify children 5 years old or less with or without Plasmodium falciparum malaria? Comparison with nested PCR analysis
BACKGROUND: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) available as dipsticks or strips, are simple to perform, easily interpretable and do not …
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Household costs and time to treatment for children with severe febrile illness in rural Burkina Faso: the role of rectal artesunate
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) were trained to identify children with malaria who could not take oral medication, treat them …
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Assessment of parasite clearance following treatment of severe malaria with intravenous artesunate in Ugandan children enrolled in a randomized controlled clinical trial
BACKGROUND: Malaria control largely depends on availability of highly efficacious drugs, however, over the years, has been threatened by emergence …
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Dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage in pregnant women under intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine in Benin
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, in particular in children and pregnant women. …
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“I feel so bad but have nothing to do.” Exploring Ugandan caregivers’ experiences of parenting a child with severe malaria and subsequent repeated uncomplicated malaria
BACKGROUND: Severe malaria in children is often associated with long-term behavioural and cognitive problems. A sizeable minority of children go …
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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity measured by spectrophotometry and associated genetic variants from the Oromiya zone, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: The study aimed to gain first data on the prevalence of G6PD enzyme deficiency measured by spectrophotometry and associated …
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‘For the poor, sleep is leisure’: understanding perceptions, barriers and motivators to mosquito net care and repair in southern Tanzania
BACKGROUND: The rate of physical deterioration of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) varies by household practices, net brand and environment. One …
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Completion of community health worker initiated patient referrals in integrated community case management in rural Uganda
BACKGROUND: Uganda has sought to address leading causes of childhood mortality: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea, through integrated community case management …
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Screening and field performance of powder-formulated insecticides on eave tube inserts against pyrethroid resistant Anopheles gambiae s.l.: an investigation into ‘actives’ prior to a randomized controlled trial in Côte d’Ivoire
BACKGROUND: The widespread emergence of insecticide resistance in African malaria vectors remains one of the main challenges facing control programmes. …
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Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection among pregnant women at first antenatal visit in post-Ebola Monrovia, Liberia
BACKGROUND: Disruption of malaria control strategies during the West African 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic led to an increase in malaria-attributable mortality. …
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Knowledge, motivation, self-efficacy, and their association with insecticidal net use among pregnant women in a secondary health centre in Maiduguri, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of malaria among pregnant women and its associated complications, the level of compliance with insecticide-treated …
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Field assessment of potential sugar feeding stations for disseminating bacteria in a paratransgenic approach to control malaria
BACKGROUND: Using bacteria to express and deliver anti-parasite molecules in mosquitoes is among the list of genetic tools to control …
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Another challenge in malaria elimination efforts: the increase of malaria among adults after the implementation of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) in Dielmo, Senegal
The widespread use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) has led to an impressive decrease of …
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Selective sweeps and genetic lineages of Plasmodium falciparum multi-drug resistance (pfmdr1) gene in Kenya
BACKGROUND: There are concerns that resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy might emerge in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the …
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Assessment of the developmental success of Anopheles coluzzii larvae under different nutrient regimes: effects of diet quality, food amount and larval density
BACKGROUND: In a context of increasing resistance of both vectors toward main classes of insecticides used in public health and …
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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in Ethiopia: absence of common African and Mediterranean allelic variants in a nationwide study
BACKGROUND: Building on the declining trend of malaria in Ethiopia, the Federal Ministry of Health aims to eliminate malaria by …
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Post-malaria neurological syndrome: four cases, review of the literature and clarification of the nosological framework
Post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS) is a debated entity, defined by neurological complications following a post-malaria symptom-free period and a negative …
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An analysis of country adoption and implementation of the 2012 WHO recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: An estimated 30 million women give birth annually in malaria endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria in pregnancy is …