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Uptake of intermittent preventive treatment and pregnancy outcomes: health facilities and community surveys in Chókwè district, southern Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnancy leads to serious adverse effects on the mother and the child and accounts for 75,000-200,000 infant …
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Investigating insecticide resistance and knock-down resistance (kdr) mutation in Dielmo, Senegal, an area under long lasting insecticidal-treated nets universal coverage for 10 years
BACKGROUND: The use of insecticides, through indoor residual spraying and long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs), is essential to control malaria vectors. …
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Nationwide insecticide resistance status and biting behaviour of malaria vector species in the Democratic Republic of Congo
BACKGROUND: Globally, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accounted for 9% of malaria cases and 10% of malaria deaths in …
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Pattern of all-causes and cause-specific mortality in an area with progressively declining malaria burden in Korogwe district, north-eastern Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Although death records are useful for planning and monitoring health interventions, such information is limited in most developing countries. …
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Private sector malaria RDT initiative in Nigeria: lessons from an end-of-project stakeholder engagement meeting
The malaria rapid diagnosis testing (RDT) landscape is rapidly evolving in health care delivery in Nigeria with many stakeholders playing …
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Effect of nutrient supplementation on the acquisition of humoral immunity to Plasmodium falciparum in young Malawian children
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that suggests that undernutrition has a detrimental effect on malarial immunity in children. The aim of …
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Improvement of malaria diagnostic system based on acridine orange staining
BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnosis of malaria using acridine orange (AO) staining and a light microscope with a halogen lamp and interference …
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Accuracy and impact of spatial aids based upon satellite enumeration to improve indoor residual spraying spatial coverage
BACKGROUND: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is a key tool in the fight to control, eliminate and ultimately eradicate malaria. IRS …
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Direct whole-genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum specimens from dried erythrocyte spots
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major health burden and genomic research represents one of the necessary approaches for continued …
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Genetic variants of RNASE3 (ECP) and susceptibility to severe malaria in Senegalese population
BACKGROUND: Severe forms of malaria (SM) are an outcome of Plasmodium falciparum infection and can cause death especially in children …
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Plasmodium falciparum diagnostic tools in HIV-positive under-5-year-olds in two ART clinics in Ghana: are there missed infections?
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum, the most dominant species in sub-Saharan Africa, causes the most severe clinical malaria manifestations. In resource-limited Ghana, …
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True malaria prevalence in children under five: Bayesian estimation using data of malaria household surveys from three sub-Saharan countries
BACKGROUND: Malaria is one of the major causes of childhood death in sub-Saharan countries. A reliable estimation of malaria prevalence …
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Quality of care in integrated community case management services in Bugoye, Uganda: a retrospective observational study
BACKGROUND: Village health workers (VHWs) in five villages in Bugoye subcounty (Kasese District, Uganda) provide integrated community case management (iCCM) …
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Entomological impact of indoor residual spraying with pirimiphos-methyl: a pilot study in an area of low malaria transmission in Senegal
BACKGROUND: Scaling-up of effective anti-malarial control strategies in Central-West region of Senegal has resulted in the sharp decline in malaria …
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Chitinase-3-like 1 is a biomarker of acute kidney injury and mortality in paediatric severe malaria
BACKGROUND: Chitinase-3-like 1 (CHI3L1) is a glycoprotein elevated in paediatric severe malaria, and an emerging urinary biomarker of acute kidney …
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Using non-exceedance probabilities of policy-relevant malaria prevalence thresholds to identify areas of low transmission in Somalia
Countries planning malaria elimination must adapt from sustaining universal control to targeted intervention and surveillance. Decisions to make this transition …
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Clinical consequences of submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia is common in both high- and low-endemicity settings, but its clinical consequences are unclear. METHODS: A …
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Prevalence of molecular markers of artemisinin and lumefantrine resistance among patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in three provinces in Angola, 2015
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin-based combination therapy is the first-line anti-malarial treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infection in Angola. To date, the prevalence …
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Molecular markers of resistance to amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine in an area with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in south central Niger
BACKGROUND: In Niger, malaria transmission is markedly seasonal with most of the disease burden occurring in children during the rainy …
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In vivo validation of anti-malarial activity of crude extracts of Terminalia macroptera, a Malian medicinal plant
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum malaria is still one of the most deadly pathology worldwide. Efficient treatment is jeopardized by parasite resistance …