Ausgabe 1/2006
Inhalt (127 Artikel)
Real-time quantitative PCR with SYBR Green I detection for estimating copy numbers of nine drug resistance candidate genes in Plasmodium falciparum
Isabel D Ferreira, Virgílio E do Rosário, Pedro VL Cravo
Malaria vectors in Angola: distribution of species and molecular forms of the Anopheles gambiae complex, their pyrethroid insecticide knockdown resistance (kdr) status and Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite rates
Nelson Cuamba, Kwang Shik Choi, Harold Townson
The Farmer Field School: a method for enhancing the role of rural communities in malaria control ?
Henk van den Berg, Bart GJ Knols
The contribution of microscopy to targeting antimalarial treatment in a low transmission area of Tanzania
Hugh Reyburn, John Ruanda, Ombeni Mwerinde, Chris Drakeley
Wealth, mother's education and physical access as determinants of retail sector net use in rural Kenya
Abdisalan M Noor, Judith A Omumbo, Abdinasir A Amin, Dejan Zurovac, Robert W Snow
Use of carbon-13 as a population marker for Anopheles arabiensis in a sterile insect technique (SIT) context
Rebecca Hood-Nowotny, Leo Mayr, Bart GJ Knols
Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
RH Behrens, Z Bisoffi, A Björkman, J Gascon, C Hatz, T Jelinek, F Legros, N Mühlberger, P Voltersvik
Housing conditions and Plasmodium falciparum infection: protective effect of iron-sheet roofed houses
Yazoumé Yé, Moshe Hoshen, Valérie Louis, Simboro Séraphin, Issouf Traoré, Rainer Sauerborn
Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa
W Richard Mukabana, Khadija Kannady, G Michael Kiama, Jasper N Ijumba, Evan M Mathenge, Ibrahim Kiche, Gamba Nkwengulila, Leonard Mboera, Deo Mtasiwa, Yoichi Yamagata, Ingeborg van Schayk, Bart GJ Knols, Steven W Lindsay, Marcia Caldas de Castro, Hassan Mshinda, Marcel Tanner, Ulrike Fillinger, Gerry F Killeen
Impact of different strategies to control Plasmodium infection and anaemia on the island of Bioko (Equatorial Guinea)
Gema Pardo, Miguel Angel Descalzo, Laura Molina, Estefanía Custodio, Magdalena Lwanga, Catalina Mangue, Jaquelina Obono, Araceli Nchama, Jesús Roche, Agustín Benito, Jorge Cano
Assessment of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to ferroquine (SSR97193) in field isolates and in W2 strain under pressure
Wassim Daher, Christophe Biot, Thierry Fandeur, Helene Jouin, Lydie Pelinski, Eric Viscogliosi, Laurent Fraisse, Bruno Pradines, Jacques Brocard, Jamal Khalife, Daniel Dive
Personal protection of long lasting insecticide-treated nets in areas of Anopheles gambiae s.s. resistance to pyrethroids
Roch K Dabiré, Abdoulaye Diabaté, Thierry Baldet, Léa Paré-Toé, Robert T Guiguemdé, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Ole Skovmand
Landscape determinants and remote sensing of anopheline mosquito larval habitats in the western Kenya highlands
Emmanuel Mushinzimana, Stephen Munga, Noboru Minakawa, Li Li, Chen-chieh Feng, Ling Bian, Uriel Kitron, Cindy Schmidt, Louisa Beck, Guofa Zhou, Andrew K Githeko, Guiyun Yan
Therapeutic efficacy test in malaria falciparum in Antioquia, Colombia
Silvia Blair, Jaime Carmona-Fonseca, Juan G Piñeros, Alexandra Ríos, Tania Álvarez, Gonzalo Álvarez, Alberto Tobón
Are insecticide-treated bednets more protective against Plasmodium falciparum than Plasmodium vivax- infected mosquitoes?
Moses J Bockarie, Henry Dagoro
Detection of the East and West African kdr mutation in Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis from Uganda using a new assay based on FRET/Melt Curve analysis
Katrijn Verhaeghen, Wim Van Bortel, Patricia Roelants, Thierry Backeljau, Marc Coosemans
New records of Anopheles arabiensis breeding on the Mount Kenya highlands indicate indigenous malaria transmission
Hong Chen, Andrew K Githeko, Guofa Zhou, John I Githure, Guiyun Yan
Longitudinal study of urban malaria in a cohort of Ugandan children: description of study site, census and recruitment
Jennifer C Davis, Tamara D Clark, Sarah K Kemble, Nalugwa Talemwa, Denise Njama-Meya, Sarah G Staedke, Grant Dorsey
The distribution of hatching time in Anopheles gambiae
Alpha S Yaro, Adama Dao, Abdoulaye Adamou, Jacob E Crawford, José MC Ribeiro, Robert Gwadz, Sekou F Traoré, Tovi Lehmann
A preliminary study of placental umbilical cord whole blood transfusion in under resourced patients with malaria in the background of anaemia
Niranjan Bhattacharya
Spatial variability in the density, distribution and vectorial capacity of anopheline species in a high transmission village (Equatorial Guinea)
Jorge Cano, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Marta Moreno, Zhaoguo Chen, Sisinio Nzambo, Leonardo Bobuakasi, Jesús N Buatiche, Melchor Ondo, Francisco Micha, Agustín Benito
Screening of pesticide residues in soil and water samples from agricultural settings
Martin C Akogbéto, Rousseau F Djouaka, Dorothée A Kindé-Gazard
Using green fluorescent malaria parasites to screen for permissive vector mosquitoes
Friedrich Frischknecht, Beatrice Martin, Isabelle Thiery, Catherine Bourgouin, Robert Menard
Lack of association between putative transporter gene polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum and chloroquine resistance in imported malaria isolates from Africa
Sandrine Cojean, Alain Noël, Dimitri Garnier, Véronique Hubert, Jacques Le Bras, Rémy Durand
Putting the genie back in the bottle? Availability and presentation of oral artemisinin compounds at retail pharmacies in urban Dar-es-Salaam
S Patrick Kachur, Carolyn Black, Salim Abdulla, Catherine Goodman
Antennal sensilla of two female anopheline sibling species with differing host ranges
R Jason Pitts, Laurence J Zwiebel
Low autochtonous urban malaria in Antananarivo (Madagascar)
Léon Paul Rabarijaona, Frédéric Ariey, Robert Matra, Sylvie Cot, Andrianavalona Lucie Raharimalala, Louise Henriette Ranaivo, Jacques Le Bras, Vincent Robert, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) II: Epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Shr-Jie Wang, Christian Lengeler, Deodatus Mtasiwa, Thomas Mshana, Lusinge Manane, Godson Maro, Marcel Tanner
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) III: epidemiology of urban malaria in the municipality of Yopougon (Abidjan)
Shr-Jie Wang, Christian Lengeler, Thomas A Smith, Penelope Vounatsou, Guéladio Cissé, Marcel Tanner
Detection of atovaquone-proguanil resistance conferring mutations in Plasmodium falciparum cytochrome b gene in Luanda, Angola
Sónia Pimentel, Fátima Nogueira, Carla Benchimol, Vatúsia Quinhentos, Joana Bom, Luís Varandas, Virgílio do Rosário, Luís Bernardino
A high-throughput method for quantifying alleles and haplotypes of the malaria vaccine candidate Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 19 kDa
Shannon L Takala, David L Smith, O Colin Stine, Drissa Coulibaly, Mahamadou A Thera, Ogobara K Doumbo, Christopher V Plowe
Epidemiological characterization of Plasmodium falciparum in the Republic of Cabo Verde: implications for potential large-scale re-emergence of malaria
Joana Alves, Ana Luísa Roque, Pedro Cravo, Tomás Valdez, Tomas Jelinek, Virgílio E do Rosário, Ana Paula Arez
A steep decline of malaria morbidity and mortality trends in Eritrea between 2000 and 2004: the effect of combination of control methods
Peter M Nyarango, Tewolde Gebremeskel, Goitom Mebrahtu, Jacob Mufunda, Usman Abdulmumini, Andom Ogbamariam, Andrew Kosia, Andemariam Gebremichael, Disanayike Gunawardena, Yohannes Ghebrat, Yahannes Okbaldet
Invasion of Africa by a single pfcrt allele of South East Asian type
Frédéric Ariey, Thierry Fandeur, Remy Durand, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Ronan Jambou, Eric Legrand, Marie Thérèse Ekala, Christiane Bouchier, Sandrine Cojean, Jean Bernard Duchemin, Vincent Robert, Jacques Le Bras, Odile Mercereau-Puijalon
Water quality and immatures of the M and S forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s. and An. arabiensis in a Malian village
Frances E Edillo, Frederic Tripét, Yeya T Touré, Gregory C Lanzaro, Guimogo Dolo, Charles E Taylor
Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
Thomas P Eisele, Kate Macintyre, Josh Yukich, Tewolde Ghebremeskel
Costing the distribution of insecticide-treated nets: a review of cost and cost-effectiveness studies to provide guidance on standardization of costing methodology
Jan Kolaczinski, Kara Hanson
Web-based climate information resources for malaria control in Africa
Emily K Grover-Kopec, M Benno Blumenthal, Pietro Ceccato, Tufa Dinku, Judy A Omumbo, Stephen J Connor
Trapping of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae with odour-baited MM-X traps in semi-field conditions in western Kenya
Basilio N Njiru, Wolfgang R Mukabana, Willem Takken, Bart GJ Knols
Adherence of community caretakers of children to pre-packaged antimalarial medicines (HOMAPAK®) among internally displaced people in Gulu district, Uganda
Jan H Kolaczinski, Naptalis Ojok, John Opwonya, Sylvia Meek, Andrew Collins
Radiation-induced sterility for pupal and adult stages of the malaria mosquito Anopheles arabiensis
Michelle EH Helinski, Andrew G Parker, Bart GJ Knols
Malaria in Sri Lanka: one year post-tsunami
Olivier JT Briët, Gawrie NL Galappaththy, Priyanie H Amerasinghe, Flemming Konradsen
Artemether-lumefantrine versus artesunate plus amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated childhood malaria in Nigeria: randomized controlled trial
Martin Meremikwu, Ambrose Alaribe, Regina Ejemot, Angela Oyo-Ita, John Ekenjoku, Chukwuemeka Nwachukwu, Donald Ordu, Emmanuel Ezedinachi
Comparison of coverage with insecticide-treated nets in a Tanzanian town and villages where nets and insecticide are either marketed or provided free of charge
CA Maxwell, RT Rwegoshora, SM Magesa, CF Curtis
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) IV: Epidemiology of urban malaria in Cotonou (Benin)
Shr-Jie Wang, Christian Lengeler, Thomas A Smith, Penelope Vounatsou, Martin Akogbeto, Marcel Tanner
Status of insecticide susceptibility in Anopheles arabiensis from Mwea rice irrigation scheme, Central Kenya
Luna Kamau, John M Vulule
Pattern of cause-specific childhood mortality in a malaria endemic area of Burkina Faso
Gaël P Hammer, Florent Somé, Olaf Müller, Gisela Kynast-Wolf, Bocar Kouyaté, Heiko Becher
Therapeutic efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in pregnancy in Burkina Faso
Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Désiré Nezien, Salifou Traoré, Bibiane Koné, Pascal Magnussen
Pharmacovigilance of antimalarial treatment in Africa: is it possible?
Ambrose O Talisuna, Sarah G Staedke, Umberto D'Alessandro
Frequency of malaria and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Tajikistan
Cornelia E Rebholz, Anette J Michel, Daniel A Maselli, Karimov Saipphudin, Kaspar Wyss
Prediction of solubility on recombinant expression of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domains in Escherichia coli
Sanjay Ahuja, Satpal Ahuja, Qijun Chen, Mats Wahlgren
Merozoite surface protein-3α is a reliable marker for population genetic analysis of Plasmodium vivax
Sedigheh Zakeri, Hesam Barjesteh, Navid D Djadid
High prevalence of drug-resistance mutations in Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in southern Ethiopia
Mirjam Schunk, Wondimagegn P Kumma, Isabel Barreto Miranda, Maha E Osman, Susanne Roewer, Abraham Alano, Thomas Löscher, Ulrich Bienzle, Frank P Mockenhaupt
Limited polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum ookinete surface antigen, von Willebrand factor A domain-related protein from clinical isolates
Jack S Richards, Nicholas J MacDonald, Damon P Eisen
Occurrence of the leucine-to-phenylalanine knockdown resistance (kdr) mutation in Anopheles arabiensis populations in Tanzania, detected by a simplified high-throughput SSOP-ELISA method
Manisha A Kulkarni, Mark Rowland, Michael Alifrangis, Frank W Mosha, Johnson Matowo, Robert Malima, Justin Peter, Eliningaya Kweka, Issa Lyimo, Stephen Magesa, Ali Salanti, Manfred E Rau, Chris Drakeley
Estimating the malaria risk of African mosquito movement by air travel
Andrew J Tatem, David J Rogers, Simon I Hay
Role of traditional healers in the management of severe malaria among children below five years of age: the case of Kilosa and Handeni Districts, Tanzania
Emmanuel A Makundi, Hamisi M Malebo, Paulo Mhame, Andrew Y Kitua, Marian Warsame
Supervised versus unsupervised antimalarial treatment with six-dose artemether-lumefantrine: pharmacokinetic and dosage-related findings from a clinical trial in Uganda
Francesco Checchi, Patrice Piola, Carole Fogg, Francis Bajunirwe, Samuel Biraro, Francesco Grandesso, Eugene Ruzagira, Joseph Babigumira, Isaac Kigozi, James Kiguli, Juliet Kyomuhendo, Laurent Ferradini, Walter RJ Taylor, Jean-Paul Guthmann
Treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria in children under five years of age: implication for home management in rural areas with high seasonal transmission in Sudan
Elfatih Mohamed Malik, Kamal Hanafi, Salah Hussein Ali, Eldirdieri Salim Ahmed, Khalid Awad Mohamed
Who sleeps under bednets in Ghana? A doer/non-doer analysis of malaria prevention behaviours
Natalie De La Cruz, Benjamin Crookston, Kirk Dearden, Bobbi Gray, Natasha Ivins, Stephen Alder, Robb Davis
A reliable morphological method to assess the age of male Anopheles gambiae
Bernadette J Huho, Kija R Ng'habi, Gerry F Killeen, Gamba Nkwengulila, Bart GJ Knols, Heather M Ferguson
Use of insecticide-treated clothes for personal protection against malaria: a community trial
Elizabeth W Kimani, John M Vulule, Isabel W Kuria, Fredrick Mugisha
Pitting of malaria parasites and spherocyte formation
Samuel B Anyona, Stanley L Schrier, Charity W Gichuki, John N Waitumbi
From chloroquine to artemisinin-based combination therapy: the Sudanese experience
EM Malik, TA Mohamed, KA Elmardi, RM Mowien, AH Elhassan, SB Elamin, AA Mannan, ES Ahmed
Modelling entomological-climatic interactions of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in two Colombian endemic-regions: contributions to a National Malaria Early Warning System
Daniel Ruiz, Germán Poveda, Iván D Vélez, Martha L Quiñones, Guillermo L Rúa, Luz E Velásquez, Juan S Zuluaga
Comparative proteomic analysis of metabolically labelled proteins from Plasmodium falciparum isolates with different adhesion properties
Yang Wu, Alister Craig
Population dynamics of sporogony for Plasmodium vivax parasites from western Thailand developing within three species of colonized Anopheles mosquitoes
Gabriela E Zollner, Narong Ponsa, Gabriel W Garman, Shreekanta Poudel, Jeffrey A Bell, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Russell E Coleman, Jefferson A Vaughan
Absence of erythrocyte sequestration in a case of babesiosis in a splenectomized human patient
Ian A Clark, Alison C Budd, Gunther Hsue, Bret R Haymore, Alina J Joyce, Richard Thorner, Peter J Krause
Compliance of young children with ITN protection in rural Burkina Faso
Claudia Frey, Corneille Traoré, Manuela De Allegri, Bocar Kouyaté, Olaf Müller
Genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax in Kolkata, India
Jung-Ryong Kim, Mallika Imwong, Amitabha Nandy, Kesinee Chotivanich, Apichart Nontprasert, Naowarat Tonomsing, Ardhendu Maji, Manjulika Addy, Nick PJ Day, Nicholas J White, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee
ABO phenotypes and malaria related outcomes in mothers and babies in The Gambia: a role for histo-blood groups in placental malaria?
María-Paz Loscertales, Bernard J Brabin
Safety and efficacy of lumefantrine-artemether (Coartem®) for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zambian adults
Modest Mulenga, Jean-Pierre Van geertruyden, Lawrence Mwananyanda, Victor Chalwe, Filip Moerman, Roma Chilengi, Chantal Van Overmeir, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Umberto D'Alessandro
Psychosis with paranoid delusions after a therapeutic dose of mefloquine: a case report
Tuan M Tran, Joseph Browning, Mary L Dell
Assessment of the therapeutic efficacy of a paediatric formulation of artemether-lumefantrine (Coartesiane®) for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum in children in Zambia
Pascalina Chanda, Moonga Hawela, Mabvuto Kango, Naawa Sipilanyambe
Rethinking the economic costs of malaria at the household level: Evidence from applying a new analytical framework in rural Kenya
Jane M Chuma, Michael Thiede, Catherine S Molyneux
Efficacy of bifenthrin-impregnated bednets against Anopheles funestus and pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles gambiae in North Cameroon
Mouhamadou Chouaibou, Frédéric Simard, Fabrice Chandre, Josiane Etang, Frédéric Darriet, Jean-Marc Hougard
Malaria hotspot areas in a highland Kenya site are consistent in epidemic and non-epidemic years and are associated with ecological factors
Kacey C Ernst, Samson O Adoka, Dickens O Kowuor, Mark L Wilson, Chandy C John
Use of pre-packaged chloroquine for the home management of presumed malaria in Malagasy children
Arsène Ratsimbasoa, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Pascal Millet, Jean Louis Soarès, Leon Rabarijaona, Benjamin Rakotoson, Denis Malvy, Didier Ménard
Detection and identification of human Plasmodium species with real-time quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification
Petra F Mens, Gerard J Schoone, Piet A Kager, Henk DFH Schallig
Malaria treatment failures after artemisinin-based therapy in three expatriates: could improved manufacturer information help to decrease the risk of treatment failure ?
Yves Jackson, François Chappuis, Louis Loutan, Walter Taylor
Confirmation of emergence of mutations associated with atovaquone-proguanil resistance in unexposed Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Africa
Christian T Happi, Grace O Gbotosho, Onikepe A Folarin, Danny Milner, Ousmane Sarr, Akintunde Sowunmi, Dennis E Kyle, Wilbur K Milhous, Dyann F Wirth, Ayoade MJ Oduola
Evaluation of the acquired immune responses to Plasmodium vivax VIR variant antigens in individuals living in malaria-endemic areas of Brazil
Tatiane R Oliveira, Carmen Fernandez-Becerra, Maria Carolina S Jimenez, Hernando A Del Portillo, Irene S Soares
Methylene blue for malaria in Africa: results from a dose-finding study in combination with chloroquine
Peter E Meissner, Germain Mandi, Boubacar Coulibaly, Steffen Witte, Théophile Tapsoba, Ulrich Mansmann, Jens Rengelshausen, Wolfgang Schiek, Albrecht Jahn, Ingeborg Walter-Sack, Gerd Mikus, Jürgen Burhenne, Klaus-Dieter Riedel, R Heiner Schirmer, Bocar Kouyaté, Olaf Müller
Human malarial disease: a consequence of inflammatory cytokine release
Ian A Clark, Alison C Budd, Lisa M Alleva, William B Cowden
Dynamics of immune response and drug resistance in malaria infection
David Gurarie, F Ellis McKenzie
Daily temperature profiles in and around Western Kenyan larval habitats of Anopheles gambiae as related to egg mortality
Juan Huang, Edward D Walker, John Vulule, James R Miller
Laboratory tests of oviposition by the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, on dark soil as influenced by presence or absence of vegetation
Juan Huang, Edward D Walker, Philip E Otienoburu, Fred Amimo, John Vulule, James R Miller
The impact of endemic and epidemic malaria on the risk of stillbirth in two areas of Tanzania with different malaria transmission patterns
Ulrika Uddenfeldt Wort, Ian Hastings, TK Mutabingwa, Bernard J Brabin
Allelic dimorphism of Plasmodium vivax gam-1 in the Indian subcontinent
Surendra K Prajapati, Anju Verma, Tridibes Adak, Rajpal S Yadav, Ashwini Kumar, Alex Eapen, Manoj K Das, Neeru Singh, Surya K Sharma, Moshahid A Rizvi, Aditya P Dash, Hema Joshi
A grid-based infrastructure for ecological forecasting of rice land Anopheles arabiensis aquatic larval habitats
Benjamin G Jacob, Ephantus J Muturi, Jose E Funes, Josephat I Shililu, John I Githure, Ibulaimu I Kakoma, Robert J Novak
Production and validation of durable, high quality standardized malaria microscopy slides for teaching, testing and quality assurance during an era of declining diagnostic proficiency
Jason D Maguire, Edith R Lederman, Mazie J Barcus, Wendy A Prudhomme O'Meara, Robert G Jordon, Socheat Duong, Sinuon Muth, Priyanto Sismadi, Michael J Bangs, W Roy Prescott, J Kevin Baird, Chansuda Wongsrichanalai
Patterns of malaria-related hospital admissions and mortality among Malawian children: an example of spatial modelling of hospital register data
Lawrence N Kazembe, Immo Kleinschmidt, Brian L Sharp
Drug resistance to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Mlimba, Tanzania
Erasto V Mbugi, Benezeth M Mutayoba, Allen L Malisa, Sakurani T Balthazary, Thomas B Nyambo, Hassan Mshinda
An improved and highly sensitive microfluorimetric method for assessing susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to antimalarial drugs in vitro
Neils B Quashie, Harry P de Koning, Lisa C Ranford-Cartwright
Literacy and recent history of diarrhoea are predictive of Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Kenyan adults
Rodney L Coldren, Trish Prosser, Fredrick Ogolla, Victor O Ofula, Nicholas Adungo
An in-depth study of patent medicine sellers' perspectives on malaria in a rural Nigerian community
Theodora A Okeke, Benjamin SC Uzochukwu, Henrietta U Okafor
Spatial and temporal variation in malaria transmission in a low endemicity area in northern Tanzania
MJAM Oesterholt, JT Bousema, OK Mwerinde, C Harris, P Lushino, A Masokoto, H Mwerinde, FW Mosha, CJ Drakeley
The co-distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and hookworm among African schoolchildren
Simon Brooker, Archie CA Clements, Peter J Hotez, Simon I Hay, Andrew J Tatem, Donald AP Bundy, Robert W Snow
The 10 kDa domain of human erythrocyte protein 4.1 binds the Plasmodium falciparum EBA-181 protein
Roberto Lanzillotti, Theresa L Coetzer
Lactate levels in severe malarial anaemia are associated with haemozoin-containing neutrophils and low levels of IL-12
Climent Casals-Pascual, Oscar Kai, Brett Lowe, Mike English, Thomas N Williams, Kathryn Maitland, Charles RCJ Newton, Norbert Peshu, David J Roberts
Sixth Africa malaria day in 2006: how far have we come after the Abuja Declaration?
Joas B Rugemalila, Charles L Wanga, Wen L Kilama
PCR detection of Plasmodium falciparum in human urine and saliva samples
Sungano Mharakurwa, Christopher Simoloka, Philip E Thuma, Clive J Shiff, David J Sullivan
Thick blood film examination for Plasmodium falciparum malaria has reduced sensitivity and underestimates parasite density
Philip Bejon, Laura Andrews, Angela Hunt-Cooke, Frances Sanderson, Sarah C Gilbert, Adrian VS Hill
Malaria and anaemia among children in two communities of Kumasi, Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
Lisa A Ronald, Sarah L Kenny, Eveline Klinkenberg, Alex O Akoto, Isaac Boakye, Guy Barnish, Martin J Donnelly
Seroprevalence of malaria in inhabitants of the urban zone of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Olivier Domarle, Romy Razakandrainibe, Emma Rakotomalala, Laurence Jolivet, Rindra Vatosoa Randremanana, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Charles Emile Ramarokoto, Jean-Louis Soares, Frédéric Ariey
Topography and malaria transmission heterogeneity in western Kenya highlands: prospects for focal vector control
Andrew K Githeko, John M Ayisi, Peter K Odada, Francis K Atieli, Bryson A Ndenga, John I Githure, Guiyun Yan
Combined chloroquine, sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine and primaquine against Plasmodium falciparum in Central Java, Indonesia
Edith R Lederman, Jason D Maguire, Iwa W Sumawinata, Krisin Chand, Iqbal Elyazar, Lusi Estiana, Priyanto Sismadi, Michael J Bangs, J Kevin Baird
Decreased availability of antimalarials in the private sector following the policy change from chloroquine to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Manuel W Hetzel, June J Msechu, Catherine Goodman, Christian Lengeler, Brigit Obrist, S Patrick Kachur, Ahmed Makemba, Rose Nathan, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda
Integration and mining of malaria molecular, functional and pharmacological data: how far are we from a chemogenomic knowledge space?
Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, Olivier Bastien, Gordon Wells, Delphine Grando, Fourie Joubert, Vinod Kasam, Marc Zimmermann, Philippe Ortet, Nicolas Jacq, Nadia Saïdani, Sylvaine Roy, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Vincent Breton, Abraham I Louw, Eric Maréchal
Early home-based recognition of anaemia via general danger signs, in young children, in a malaria endemic community in north-east Tanzania
Frank M Ringsted, Ib C Bygbjerg, Helle Samuelsen
Molecular surveillance of mutations in the cytochrome b gene of Plasmodium falciparum in Gabon and Ethiopia
Tamirat Gebru, Asrat Hailu, Peter G Kremsner, Jürgen FJ Kun, Martin P Grobusch
Efficacy of three artemisinin combination therapies for the treatmentof uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Republic of Congo
Ingrid van den Broek, Christa Kitz, Sarwatt Al Attas, François Libama, Manica Balasegaram, Jean-Paul Guthmann
Survival of immature Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae) in aquatic habitats in Mwea rice irrigation scheme, central Kenya
Joseph M Mwangangi, Ephantus J Muturi, Josephat Shililu, Simon M Muriu, Benjamin Jacob, Ephantus W Kabiru, Charles M Mbogo, John Githure, Robert Novak
Effective population size of Anopheles funestus chromosomal forms in Burkina Faso
Andrew P Michel, Olga Grushko, Wamdaogo M Guelbeogo, N'Fale Sagnon, Carlo Costantini, Nora J Besansky
Scanning electron microscopy of the neuropathology of murine cerebral malaria
Peter Lackner, Ronny Beer, Raimund Helbok, Gregor Broessner, Klaus Engelhardt, Christian Brenneis, Erich Schmutzhard, Kristian Pfaller
Consumers stated and revealed preferences for community health workers and other strategies for the provision of timely and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe, Nkem Dike, Juliana Ojukwu, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Nkoli Ezumah, Elvis Shu, Paul Okonkwo
Reader technique as a source of variability in determining malaria parasite density by microscopy
Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara, Mazie Barcus, Chansuda Wongsrichanalai, Sinuon Muth, Jason D Maguire, Robert G Jordan, William R Prescott, F Ellis McKenzie
Detection and clinical manifestation of placental malaria in southern Ghana
Frank P Mockenhaupt, George Bedu-Addo, Christiane von Gaertner, Renate Boyé, Katrin Fricke, Iris Hannibal, Filiz Karakaya, Marieke Schaller, Ulrike Ulmen, Patrick A Acquah, Ekkehart Dietz, Teunis A Eggelte, Ulrich Bienzle
Over-diagnosis of malaria is not a lost cause
Paul M Masika, Waziri J Semarundu, Raymond Urassa, Jackline Mosha, Daniel Chandramohan, Roly D Gosling
Comparison of PCR and microscopy for the detection of asymptomatic malaria in a Plasmodium falciparum/vivax endemic area in Thailand
Russell E Coleman, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Sommai Promstaporm, Nongnuj Maneechai, Bousaraporn Tippayachai, Ampornpan Kengluecha, Nattawan Rachapaew, Gabriela Zollner, Robert Scott Miller, Jefferson A Vaughan, Krongtong Thimasarn, Benjawan Khuntirat
The use of genotyping in antimalarial clinical trials: a systematic review of published studies from 1995–2005
William J Collins, Bryan Greenhouse, Philip J Rosenthal, Grant Dorsey
A community-based health education programme for bio-environmental control of malaria through folk theatre (Kalajatha) in rural India
Susanta K Ghosh, Rajan R Patil, Satyanarayan Tiwari, Aditya P Dash
Caregivers' perceived treatment failure in home-based management of fever among Ugandan children aged less than five years
Mugagga Malimbo, Erieza Mugisha, Fred Kato, Charles Karamagi, Ambrose O Talisuna
IMP PCR primers detect single nucleotide polymorphisms for Anopheles gambiae species identification, Mopti and Savanna rDNA types, and resistance to dieldrin in Anopheles arabiensis
Elien E Wilkins, Paul I Howell, Mark Q Benedict
Molecular monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin in Tanzania
Kefas Mugittu, Blaise Genton, Hassan Mshinda, Hans Peter Beck
Some considerations in the design and interpretation of antimalarial drug trials in uncomplicated falciparum malaria
Kasia Stepniewska, Nicholas J White