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Revolutionizing Healthcare With Paper‐Based Nucleic Acid Testing

Exploration, EarlyView.
This work summarizes strategies to enhance paper‐based devices for nucleic acid testing. Key approaches include optimizing paper platforms, improving nucleic acid amplification, and refining labeling/signaling methods. These advancements aim to boost sensitivity, speed, and usability, making paper‐based diagnostics more effective for point‐of‐care ...
Hong Zhang, Yi Yang, Heng Li, Xiaolin Hu, Hui Xiao, Dou Wang, Sergio Benardini, Wei Gu, Yang Luo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient socio-demographics and clinical factors associated with malaria mortality: a case control study in the northern region of Ghana

Malaria Journal
Background Ghana is a malaria-endemic country with the entire population at risk. The Northern region of the country recorded the highest malaria case fatality rate (CFR) for two consecutive years: 1.11% in 2013 and 1.07% in 2014.
Nana Yaw Peprah, Wahjib Mohammed, George Asumah Adu, Dora Dadzie, Sammy Oppong, Seidu Barikisu, Joel Narh, Stephen Appiah, James Frimpong, Keziah L. Malm   +9 more
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Correction to: Mass testing and treatment for malaria followed by weekly fever screening, testing and treatment in Northern Senegal: feasibility, cost and impact

Malaria Journal, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Ruben O. Conner, Yakou Dieye, Michael Hainsworth, Adama Tall, Badara Cissé, Farba Faye, Mame Demba Sy, Amadou Ba, Doudou Sene, Souleymane Ba, Elhadji Doucouré, Tidiane Thiam, Moussa Diop, Kammerle Schneider, Moustapha Cissé, Mady Ba, Callie A. Scott, Ritu Kumar, Elias Asfaw, Duncan Earle, Philippe Guinot, Richard W. Steketee, Caterina Guinovart   +22 more
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Food Contamination and Safety in Nigeria: A Systematic Synthesis of Heavy Metals, Microbial Pathogens, and Health Risk Metrics

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
This is an infographic driver of food contaminants and health effects. ABSTRACT Food safety remains a critical challenge in Nigeria due to rapid urbanization and weak regulatory enforcement. This systematic review synthesizes empirical evidence from 2015 to 2025 to characterize food contaminant profiles and associated human health risks in Nigeria ...
Cecilia Nwadiuto Obasi, Naomi A. Mogborukor, Baridoo Donatus Dooka, Polycarp Dauda Madaki, Chiara Frazzoli, Mohamed Haddad, Orish Ebere Orisakwe   +6 more
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Decentralisation of the Healthcare Systems and the Functioning of Public Health Programmes in Single‐Party States: A Systematic Review

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Decentralisation is the transfer of authority from central to local governments, involving shared responsibilities in planning, management, and decision‐making. In public health, decentralisation might help improve service delivery by allowing local authorities to tailor interventions to the specific needs of diverse ...
Phonevilay Viphonephom, Ho Van Hoa, Sengchanh Kounnavong, Daniel Reinharz   +3 more
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Spatially Explicit Burden Estimates of Malaria in Tanzania: Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling of the Malaria Indicator survey data. [PDF]

, 2012
A national HIV/AIDS and malaria parasitological survey was carried out in Tanzania in 2007-2008. In this study the parasitological data were analyzed: i) to identify climatic/environmental, socio-economic and interventions factors associated with child ...
Gosoniu Laura, Msengwa Amina, Lengeler, Christian, Msengwa, A., Amina Msengwa, Gosoniu, L., Christian Lengeler, Penelope Vounatsou, Lengeler Christian, Vounatsou Penelope, Msengwa, Amina, Laura Gosoniu, Vounatsou, P., Gosoniu, Laura, Vounatsou, Penelope, Lengeler, C.   +15 more
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Plasmepsins as Antimalarial Drug Targets—Then, Now, and the Future

Medicinal Research Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malaria is a devastating disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. Plasmodium parasites express ten cathepsin D‐like aspartyl proteases, called plasmepsins (PMs). These PMs have diverse roles fulfill diverse functions throughout the parasite's lifecycle, though several exhibit functional redundancies. Among them, PMV, PMIV, and PMX are essential
Brad E. Sleebs
wiley   +1 more source

Early evening outdoor biting by malaria-infected Anopheles arabiensis vectors threatens malaria elimination efforts in Zanzibar

Malaria Journal
Background The Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme relies on insecticide-treated nets as the principal vector control method, supplemented by reactive focal indoor residual spraying.
Bakar Khatib, Juma Mcha, Zamzam Pandu, Makame Haji, Makame Hassan, Huba Ali, Ramla Mrisho, Kali Abdallah, Ali Ali, Khadija Ali, Talib Said, Safia Mohamed, Humphrey Mkali, Said Mgata, Stella Makwaruzi, Michael Gulaka, Geofrey Makenga, Sigsbert Mkude, Victoria Githu, Victor Mero, Naomi Serbantez, Sarah-Blythe Ballard, Adeline Chan, Shija Joseph Shija, Nicodem J. Govella   +24 more
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Eliminate now: seven critical actions required to accelerate elimination of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Malaria Journal, 2016
The emergence in 2009 of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to the primary therapies currently in use (artemisinin-based combination therapy, ACT) in Southeast Asia threatens to set back decades of global progress in malaria control and ...
Andrew A. Lover, Roly Gosling, Richard Feachem, Jim Tulloch   +3 more
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Focused Screening and Treatment (FSAT): a PCR-based strategy to detect malaria parasite carriers and contain drug resistant P. falciparum, Pailin, Cambodia. [PDF]

, 2012
Recent studies have shown that Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites in Pailin province, along the border between Thailand and Cambodia, have become resistant to artemisinin derivatives. To better define the epidemiology of P.
Yeang, Chhiang, Shunmay Yeung, Nguon, Sokomar, Chea, Nguon, Thomson Andrew, Chhiang Yeang (130756), Steven Bjorge (130709), Khim Nimol, Samphornarann Top (130727), Habib, Najibullah, Robert D Newman, Andrew Thomson (23309), Menard, Didier, Sovann Yok, Kim Saorin, Kim, Saorin, Sophal, Uth, Bjorge Steven, Benoit Witkowski, Didier Menard (2577220), Najibullah Habib, Michelle M Thompson, Steven Bjorge, Sarorn Sum, Didier Menard, Nimol Khim (130700), Andrew Thomson, Christophel Eva-Maria, Ros, Seyha, Mellor Steve, Top Samphornarann, Hoyer Stefan, Bjorge, Steven, Socheat Duong, Saorin Kim, Menard Didier, Kheng, Sim, Nguon Chea, Hoyer, Stefan, Top, Samphornarann, Sokomar Nguon, Najibullah Habib (130696), Thompson Michelle M., Robert D. Newman (130763), Sarorn Sum (130703), Sophal Uth, Witkowski Benoit, Witkowski, Benoit, Sovann Yok (130723), Socheat Duong (130761), Newman, Robert D, Nguon Sokomar, Uth Sophal, Michelle M. Thompson, Michelle M. Thompson (130739), Duong, Socheat, Kheng Sim, Seyha Ros (130731), Mellor, Steve, Yeung, Shunmay, Chhiang Yeang, Ariey Frédéric, Seyha Ros, Samphornarann Top, Saorin Kim (130692), Christophel, Eva-Maria, Khim, Nimol, Steve Mellor, Sim Kheng (130715), Uth Sophal (130734), Chea Nguon, Eva-Maria Christophel, Nguon Chea (130719), Yok Sovann, Frédéric Ariey (92228), Ros Seyha, Sum, Sarorn, Nimol Khim, Thomson, Andrew, Frédéric Ariey, Yeang Chhiang, Newman Robert D., Sum Sarorn, Thompson, Michelle M, Habib Najibullah, Ariey, Frédéric, Duong Socheat, Yeung Shunmay, Eva-Maria Christophel (130705), Sim Kheng, Sokomar Nguon (130689), Stefan Hoyer (130687), Stefan Hoyer, Yok, Sovann, Robert D. Newman, Steve Mellor (130744), Benoit Witkowski (130751), Shunmay Yeung (53391)   +97 more
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