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Insecticide-treated bednets for the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia: a cluster-randomized trial.

open access: yes, 2006
OBJECTIVES: To validate and quantify the impact of insecticide-treated bednets (ITN) on malaria morbidity and mortality in Cambodia. METHODS: A paired, cluster-randomized trial of ITN was conducted in Rattanakiri, North East Cambodia.
Alexander, N   +8 more
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Community Case Management of Fever Due to Malaria and Pneumonia in Children Under Five in Zambia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In a cluster randomized trial, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi and colleagues find that integrated management of malaria and pneumonia in children under five by community health workers is both feasible and effective. BACKGROUND.
Hamainza, Busiku   +12 more
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In vitro drug interaction of ionophores with artemisinin and chloroquine against Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 blood-stage infection

open access: yesFrontiers in Drug Discovery, 2023
The prevalence of clinical resistance of P. falciparum towards artemisinin and its partner drugs has significantly hampered malarial chemotherapy. To circumvent this situation, identifying a new class of partner drugs with significant anti-malarial ...
Vinoth Rajendran, Keerthana Gurukkalot
doaj   +1 more source

Antimalarials may reduce cancer risk in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

open access: yesAnnals of Medicine, 2021
Objective To investigate the effect of antimalarials on cancer risk in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Methods PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched from their inception to October 3, 2020. Relative risk (
Xian-Bao Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

End-to-end Malaria Diagnosis and 3D Cell Rendering with Deep Learning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Malaria is a parasitic infection that poses a significant burden on global health. It kills one child every 30 seconds and over one million people annually. If diagnosed in a timely manner, however, most people can be effectively treated with antimalarial therapy. Several deaths due to malaria are byproducts of disparities in the social determinants of
arxiv  

Diamond magnetic microscopy of malarial hemozoin nanocrystals [PDF]

open access: yesPhys. Rev. Applied 11, 034029 (2019), 2018
Magnetic microscopy of malarial hemozoin nanocrystals was performed using optically detected magnetic resonance imaging of near-surface diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers. Hemozoin crystals were extracted from $Plasmodium$-$falciparum$-infected human blood cells and studied alongside synthetic hemozoin crystals.
arxiv   +1 more source

Quinoline Antimalarials Increase the Antibacterial Activity of Ampicillin

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Bacterial and malaria co-infections are common in malaria endemic countries and thus necessitate co-administration of antibiotics and antimalarials. There have long been anecdotal clinical reports of interactions between penicillins and antimalarial ...
Olajumoke A. Olateju   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antimalarial drug resistance [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Investigation, 2004
Malaria, the most prevalent and most pernicious parasitic disease of humans, is estimated to kill between one and two million people, mainly children, each year. Resistance has emerged to all classes of antimalarial drugs except the artemisinins and is responsible for a recent increase in malaria-related mortality, particularly in Africa.
openaire   +5 more sources

"We learn from them, they learn from us": global health experiences and host perceptions of visiting health care professionals.

open access: yes, 2013
PURPOSE: It is increasingly common for health care professionals from developed countries to travel to developing regions of the world to learn or teach.
Drain   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Reduction of transmission from malaria patients by artemisinin combination therapies: a pooled analysis of six randomized trials. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin combination therapies (ACT), which are increasingly being introduced for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, are more effective against sexual stage parasites (gametocytes) than previous first-line antimalarials and ...
Bousema, Teun   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

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