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cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission. [PDF]
Blocking Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes has been designated a strategic objective in the global agenda of malaria elimination. Transmission is ensured by gametocyte-infected erythrocytes (GIE) that sequester in the bone marrow and at ...
A Dawn +74 more
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Erythrocyte tropism of malarial parasites: The reticulocyte appeal
Erythrocytes are formed from the enucleation of erythroblasts in the bone marrow, and as erythrocytes develop from immature reticulocytes into mature normocytes, they undergo extensive cellular changes through their passage in the blood. During the blood
Yew Wai Leong +6 more
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The activity of methylene blue against asexual and sexual stages of Plasmodium vivax
Methylene blue (MB) is an alternative for combating drug-resistant malaria parasites. Its transmission-blocking potential has been demonstrated in vivo in murine models, in vitro, and in clinical trials.
Camila Fabbri +27 more
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Plasmodium vivax gametocytes and transmission
Malaria elimination means cessation of parasite transmission. At present, the declining malaria incidence in many countries has made elimination a feasible goal. Transmission control has thus been placed at the center of the national malaria control programs.
Sirasate, Bantuchai +2 more
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The Coming-Out of Malaria Gametocytes [PDF]
The tropical disease malaria, which results in more than one million deaths annually, is caused by protozoan parasites of the genusPlasmodiumand transmitted by blood-feeding Anopheline mosquitoes. Parasite transition from the human host to the mosquito vector is mediated by gametocytes, sexual stages that are formed in human erythrocytes, which ...
Kuehn, Andrea, Pradel, Gabriele
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Can field-based mosquito feeding assays be used for evaluating transmission-blocking interventions? [PDF]
A recent meta-analysis of mosquito feeding assays to determine the Plasmodium falciparum transmission potential of naturally infected gametocyte carriers highlighted considerable variation in transmission efficiency between assay methodologies and ...
Bousema, Teun +3 more
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School-based screening and treatment may reduce P. falciparum transmission
In areas where malaria remains entrenched, novel transmission-reducing interventions are essential for malaria elimination. We report the impact screening-and-treatment of asymptomatic Malawian schoolchildren (n = 364 in the rainy season and 341 in the ...
Lauren M. Cohee +11 more
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Risk factors for Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte positivity in a longitudinal cohort. [PDF]
Malaria transmission intensity is highly heterogeneous even at a very small scale. Implementing targeted intervention in malaria transmission hotspots offers the potential to reduce the burden of disease both locally and in adjacent areas.
Laura Grange +9 more
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Sexual reproduction of Plasmodium falciparum parasites is critical to the spread of malaria in the human population. The factors that regulate gene expression underlying formation of fertilization-competent gametes, however, remain unknown.
Sudhir Kumar +7 more
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Plasmodium falciparum gametogenesis essential protein 1 (GEP1) is a transmission-blocking target. [PDF]
This study shows Plasmodium falciparum GEP1 is vital for activating sexual stages of malarial parasites even independently of a mosquito factor. Knockout parasites completely fail gamete formation even when a phosphodiesterase inhibitor is added. Two single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (V241L and S263P) are found in 12%–20% of field samples.
Huppertz F +5 more
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