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4 days ago · Book: The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria. Randall Packard. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, ISBN: 9781421403960; 320pp.; Price: £45.30. Reviewer: Dr Maureen Malowany. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Citation:
- Randall M. Packard
- 2007
3 days ago · While two Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein-based pre-erythrocytic vaccines (PEV), RTS,S and R21, have been approved by the WHO, no blood-stage vaccine (BSV) or transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV) has reached a phase 3 trial. One of the major obstacles that slows down malaria vaccine development is the shortage (or lack) of in vitro assays or animal models by which investigators ...
4 days ago · Prevalence of P. falciparum sporozoites in An. funestus as detected by ELISA and PCR. The ELISA screening detected 184 positives out of the 4281 tested samples (4%) while the PCR screening method ...
3 days ago · ByAnnika Weder. /Published May 28, 2024. Renowned geneticist and parasitologist Jane Carlton's ultimate goal is what is referred to, in her field of malaria research, as the "e word": eradication. Advancements in this field, Carlton says, often lead to more questions than they answer, moving the research forward in new directions.
1 day ago · Then, reckons Dr Adrian Hill, who led research on r21, the eradication of falciparum malaria would begin to look technically feasible. Ms Mirembe’s son, battling his fever, is growing up in a ...
4 days ago · Overview . In response to ever increasing financial constraints, the WHO Global Malaria Programme and Regional Offices, in consultation with selected national malaria programme managers and technical partners, have developed guiding principles for prioritizing interventions in resource-constrained country contexts to achieve maximum impact for national malaria control programmes.
2 days ago · In a paper titled “tRNA modification reprogramming contributes to artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum”, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers from SMART's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group documented their discovery: A change in a single tRNA, a small RNA molecule that is involved in translating genetic information from RNA to ...
