... number of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas—from 593 000 visits in 1987 ... worrying trend in cases of the potentially fatal falciparum malaria which have increased steady over the past 20 ...
... areas, combined with a failure to use prevention measures, has significantly increased cases of imported falciparum malaria in the UK over the past 20 years, according to a study published online.
... billion people exposed to stable P. falciparum malaria risk, which amounts to less than US ... conclude that the goal to halve the global burden of malaria by 2015 very likely will not be met with current ...
... & Tropical Medicine present a mathematical model that predicts the impact on Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission of the introduction of ACT and alternative first-line treatments for malaria in ...
... team including David Schellenberg, Professor of Malaria & International Health at LSHTM, reports that a slightly ... major global public health challenges - falciparum malaria. Both trials show promising ...
... is now the primary form of treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which kills nearly one million people ... Thai-Burmese border, an area where malaria transmission is low but highly drug-resistant, ...
... under six years with severe P. falciparum malaria at the Komfo Anokye hospital in Kumasi, ... significantly reduced.
Thus, severe P. falciparum infection causes disruption of the endothelium, resulting ...
... where the disease, death and disability burdens from P. falciparum malaria remain high.
"This map ... risk gives us hope that eliminating malaria in many countries is technically feasible," says Dr Simon ...
... , aims to address inadequate access to ACTs for treating P. falciparum malaria by subsidizing producer prices. First proposed in 2004, the facility aims to lower end-user prices to the ...
... utero. The researchers looked for malaria-specific immune responses in T cells in the newborn babies' ... babies born to mothers with no P. falciparum malaria infection at delivery.
In their first three ...
... Janet Cox-Singh, showed that P. knowlesi, a malaria parasite previously thought to mainly infect ... makes P. knowlesi malaria as deadly as P. falciparum malaria, they stress that an accurate fatality ...
... use genetic analyses to trace the emergence and dispersal of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa. They find that resistance to the antimalarial drug sulfadoxine has emerged ...
... combination therapies (ACTs), now recommended by the WHO as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in all endemic countries.
Following increasing reports that the efficacy of ...
... combination with faster-acting antimalarials in the parenteral treatment of multidrug-resistant P. falciparum malaria in seriously ill patients," say the researchers.
(P. Starzengruber, K. Thriemer, ...
