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Malaria-associated acute lung injury (MA-ALI) ... well-recognized clinical complication of severe, complicated malaria that is partly driven by sequestrations of...
Vector-borne diseases affecting humans, wildlife and livestock have significantly increased their incidence and distribution in the last decades. Because the interaction among vectors-parasite-vertebrate hosts pl...
Progress made in the control of malaria vectors globally is largely due to the ... insecticides. However, success in the fight against malaria has slowed down or even stalled due...
There has been increasing effort in recent years to incorporate user needs in technology design and re-design. This project employed a bottom-up approach that engaged end users from the outset. Bottom-up approach...
Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is the leading protozoan causing malaria, the most devastating parasitic disease. To...Pf parasites differentiate into the sexual forms (gametocytes). Since the abundance of these essen...
Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are vectors for most malaria parasites of the Plasmodium species and are required for Plasmodium spp. to complete their life cycle. Despite having 16 species of mosquitoes and the detection...
The demonstration that the recently discovered Anopheles symbiont Microsporidia MB blocks malaria transmission in Anopheles arabiensis...and undergoes vertical and horizontal transmission suggests that it is a pr...
Agricultural pesticides may exert strong selection pressures on malaria vectors during the aquatic life stages and ... of agrochemicals on susceptibility and fitness of the malaria vectors across farming areas in...
Malaria is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa with...kdr R and ace-1 R alleles constitute a hindrance to malaria vector control programs. An...
Mass insecticide treated bed net (ITN) deployment, and its associated coverage of populations at risk, had “pushed” a decline in malaria transmission. However, it is unknown whether malaria control is being enhan...
A survey of adult anopheline mosquito diversities, collected from September 2009 to August 2010, was conducted in a malaria endemic area of western Thailand. Two anopheline ... within each complex and group, four...
Understanding the relationship between Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission and health outcomes requires accurate estimates ... the extent and drivers of local variation in malaria exposure in endemic areas...
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms have been associated with adaptive behavioral, physiological, morphological and life history traits in the two main Afrotropical malaria vectors, Anopheles coluzzii and Anophel...
A dynamic study on the transmission of malaria was conducted in two areas (R+ area: Low resistance area; R+++...area: High resistance area) in the department of Plateau in South Eastern Benin, where the populatio...
Both free-flying laboratory bioassays (WHO Tunnel and I-ACT) consistently measured similarly, and both predicted the results of the experimental hut test. For bioefficacy monitoring and upstream product evalua...
Over the past decade, a sharp decline of malaria burden has been observed in several countries. ... geographical heterogeneity of exposure and subsequent risk of malaria transmission. In this study, we investigat...
We used Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes and the rodent malaria, Plasmodium yoelii yoelii, to investigate whether quality of larval habitat influenced vectorial capacity of adult mosquitoes. Larvae were reared unde...
Identifying the parasites transmitted by a particular vector and the factors that render this vector susceptible to the parasite are key steps to understanding disease transmission. Although avian malaria has bec...
Monitoring the biological attributes of mosquitoes is critical for understanding pathogen transmission and estimating the impacts of vector control interventions on the survival of vector species. Infrared spe...
Malaria transmission in Cameroon is mediated by a ... depending on the biotope. To effectively guide malaria control operations, regular update on the role...Anopheles...species is essential. Therefore, an entomo...
In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), new vector-control tools are needed to target mosquitoes that bite outside during the daytime and night-time to advance malaria elimination.
Understanding the mechanisms used by Anopheles...mosquitoes to survive insecticide exposure is key to manage existing insecticide resistance and develop more suitable insecticide-based malaria vector control inte...
The liver is responsible for a range of functions in vertebrates, such as metabolism and immunity. In malaria, the liver plays a crucial role in ... hepatitis is a common clinical complication of severe malaria, ...
Malaria was eliminated from Sri Lanka in 2013. ... is separated by a narrow strait from the malaria-endemic Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
In Brazil, the autochthonous transmission of extra-Amazonian malaria occurs mainly in areas of the southeastern...Anopheles cruzii...is the primary vector. In these locations, the population density of the mosqui...
The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in 2000, and nearly all endemic countries in the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and Asia-Pacific regions have now initiated the WHO rec...
Providing protection from malaria vector bites, both indoors and outdoors, is crucial to curbing malaria parasite transmission. Screening of house entry points...
Different trapping devices and attractants are used in the mosquito surveillance programs currently running in Europe. Most of these devices target vector species belonging to the genera Culex or Aedes, and no st...
Vector control is considered to be the most successful component of malaria prevention programs and a major contributor to the reduction of malaria incidence over the last two decades. However ... The aim of this...
Insecticide treated materials remain the mainstay for malaria prevention. The current study reports on the ... entomological impact of cyfluthrin impregnated bed nets on malaria transmission in Mbandjock, a semi ...
In Mvoua, a village situated in a forested area of Cameroon, recent studies have reported high prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum...infection among the population. In order to understand factors that can sustain...
Serine repeat antigen (SERA) is conserved among species of the genus Plasmodium. Sera genes form a multigene family and are generally tandemly clustered on a single chromosome. Although all Plasmodium species enc...
Apoptosis is a precisely regulated process of cell death which occurs widely in multicellular organisms and is essential for normal development and immune defences. In recent years, interest has grown in the occu...
Wolbachia, obligate intracellular bacteria, infect the majority of arthropods, including many mosquito species of medical importance. Some Wolbachia strains interfere with the development of Plasmodium parasites ...
Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) may have different impacts on distinct mosquito vector species. We assessed the efficacy of pyrethroid-pyriproxyfen and pyrethroid-chlorfenapyr LLINs on the density of Anoph...
Anopheles funestus is a major malaria vector in Eastern and Southern Africa and is currently the dominant malaria-transmitting vector in many parts of Tanzania....An. funestus distribution during dry seasons. Bas...
The Correction to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:63
The full-scale impact of odour-baited technology on the surveillance, sampling and control of vectors of infectious diseases is partly limited by the lack of methods for the efficient and sustainable dispensing o...
It has been speculated that widespread and sustained use of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) for over 10 years in Asembo, western Kenya, may have selected for changes in the location (indoor versus outdoor) an...
Understanding malaria vector mosquitoes and their infectivity dynamics is ... up intervention and control programmes. Patterns of malaria transmission have been shown to differ between ... However, very little in...
Malaria is one of the most devastating tropical ... children under the age of 5 years. Malaria burden, related deaths and stall in the progress against malaria transmission is evident, particularly in countries t...
Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are a vital tool in the fight against malaria vectors. However, their efficacy in the ... mortality effect, all of which could influence malaria transmission. We have invest...
Despite years of effort to develop an effective vaccine against malaria infection, a vaccine that provides individuals with sufficient protection against malaria illness and death in endemic areas is ... vaccines...
Semi-field experiments with human landing catch (HLC) measure as the outcome are an important step in the development of novel vector control interventions against outdoor transmission of malaria since they provi...
Identification of malaria vector breeding sites can enhance control activities. Although associations between malaria vector breeding sites and topography are well ... (DEMs) to model the breeding sites of malaria
Anopheles sawadwongporni Rattanarithikul & Green, Anopheles maculatus Theobald and Anopheles pseudowillmori (Theobald) of the Anopheles maculatus...group (Diptera: Culicidae) are recognized as potential malaria v...
Increasing pyrethroid resistance in malaria vectors has been reported in western Kenya ... . To ensure the sustainability of insecticide-based malaria vector control, monitoring programs need to be ... at determi...
Malaria vectors have a strong ecological association with ... Intensification (SRI), are gaining popularity in malaria-endemic countries seeking to expand rice production; ... the life history traits of two major...
Pyrethroid resistance has been slower to emerge in Anopheles arabiensis than in An. gambiae s.s and An. funestus and, consequently, studies are only just beginning to unravel the genes involved. Permethrin resist...
Recent studies indicate that the prevalence of non-falciparum malaria, including Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale...spp., is increasing, with some complications in infected individuals. The aim of this re...
Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease caused...Plasmodium. The development and spread of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium parasites represent a major challenge to malaria control and elimination pro...
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