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Health systems readiness and quality of inpatient malaria case-management in Kano State, Nigeria

Malaria Journal, 2020
Background Nigeria was among the first African countries to adopt and implement change of treatment policy for severe malaria from quinine to artesunate.
Abiodun A. Ojo, Kolawole Maxwell, Olusola Oresanya, Justice Adaji, Prudence Hamade, James K. Tibenderana, Saddiq S. Abubakar, Bala M. Audu, Ahmad Njidda, Aishatu B. Gubio, Robert W. Snow, Dejan Zurovac   +11 more
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Extending seasonal malaria chemoprevention to five cycles: a pilot study of feasibility and acceptability in Mangodara district, Burkina Faso

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) involves administering antimalarial drugs at monthly intervals during the high malaria transmission period to children aged 3 to 59 months as recommended by the World Health Organization.
Adama Traore, Laura Donovan, Benoit Sawadogo, Charlotte Ward, Helen Smith, Christian Rassi, Helen Counihan, Johanna Johansson, Sol Richardson, Justin Ragnessi Savadogo, Kevin Baker   +10 more
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Using Decision Analysis to Improve Malaria Control Policy Making [PDF]

, 2009
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases represent a significant and growing burden in many tropical countries. Successfully addressing these threats will require policies that expand access to and use of existing control methods, such as insecticide ...
Anderson, Richard M., Dickinson, Katherine L., Fowler, Vance G., Kramer, Randall A., Miranda, Marie Lynn, Mutero, Clifford M., Saterson, Kathryn A., Wiener, Jonathan B.   +7 more
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Malaria: The Past and the Present

Microorganisms, 2019
Malaria is a severe disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans by a bite of an infected female mosquito of the species Anopheles.
J. Talapko, I. Škrlec, Tamara Alebić, M. Jukić, A. Včev   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Achieving global malaria eradication in changing landscapes

Malaria Journal, 2021
Land use and land cover changes, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion and urbanization, are one of the largest anthropogenic environmental changes globally.
K. Fornace, Adriana V. Díaz, J. Lines, C. Drakeley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2007
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results into broad age groups and across ...
Abdullah, Salim, Adazu, Kubaje, Binka, Fred N, Diallo, Diadier, Hodgson, Abraham, Ilboudo-Sanogo, Edith, Masanja, Honorati, Nhacolo, Ariel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Smith, Thomas, Thompson, Ricardo   +10 more
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Oxidative insult can induce malaria-protective trait of sickle and fetal erythrocytes

Nature Communications, 2016
Plasmodium falciparum infections can cause severe malaria, but not every infected person develops life-threatening complications. In particular, carriers of the structural haemoglobinopathies S and C and infants are protected from severe disease ...
Marek Cyrklaff, Sirikamol Srismith, Britta Nyboer, Kvetoslava Burda, Angelika Hoffmann, Felix Lasitschka, Sophie Adjalley, C. Bisseye, Jacques Simpore, A. Mueller, Cecilia P. Sanchez, Friedrich Frischknecht, M. Lanzer   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The need for new vector control approaches targeting outdoor biting Anopheline malaria vector communities

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Since the implementation of Roll Back Malaria, the widespread use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) is thought to have played a major part in the decrease in mortality and morbidity achieved in malaria-endemic regions.
Seynabou Sougoufara, Emmanuel C Ottih, Frédéric Tripet   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Critical roles of endogenous glucocorticoids for disease tolerance in malaria

, 2019
During malaria, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is activated and glucocorticoid (GC) levels are increased, but their essential roles have been largely overlooked.
De Bosscher, Karolien, Opdenakker, Ghislain, Van den Steen, Philippe E., Vandermosten, Leen, Vanhorebeek, Ilse   +4 more
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Sri Lanka Malaria Maps [PDF]

, 2003
BACKGROUND: Despite a relatively good national case reporting system in Sri Lanka, detailed maps of malaria distribution have not been publicly available.
Amerasinghe, Felix P, Briët, Olivier JT, Gunawardena, Dissanayake M, van der Hoek, Wim   +3 more
core   +3 more sources