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The impacts of interannual climate fluctuations on vector-borne diseases, especially malaria, have received considerable attention in the scientific ... because cooler temperature and seasonally dry conditions li...
The genetic variation in the Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp2) gene that may compromise the use of pfhrp2-...based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for the diagnosis of malaria was assessed in
The global decline of malaria burden and goals for elimination has led ... increased interest in the fine-scale epidemiology of malaria. Micro-geographic heterogeneity of malaria infection could have implications...
Because of the low sensitivity of conventional rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria infections, the actual prevalence of the diseases...Plasmodium falciparum...(non-Pf) species, in asymptomatic populations r...
Insecticide resistance has emerged as one of the major challenges facing National Malaria Control Programmes in Africa. A well-coordinated...IRBase...) can facilitate the development of effective strategies for m...
Larval source management strategies can play an important role in malaria elimination programmes, especially for tackling outdoor biting ... for identifying geographic foci of vector proliferation and malaria tra...
Ambient temperature is an important determinant of malaria transmission and suitability, affecting the life-cycle...Plasmodium parasite and Anopheles vector. Early models predicted a thermal malaria transmission ...
Malaria still has a devastating impact on public ... interest where further evidence is needed to drive malaria elimination efforts. The present study seeks to ... a review of studies conducted so far on malaria ...
Malnutrition is common in children in sub-Saharan Africa and is thought to increase the risk of infectious diseases, including malaria. The relationship between malnutrition and malaria was examined in a cohort o...
Every year, millions of people are burdened with malaria. An estimated 429,000 casualties were reported ... years old. Early and accurate diagnosis of malaria is of paramount importance to ensure appropriate ... ...
In Uganda, malaria vector control interventions and case management with ... of interventions was collected during the first two Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) conducted in 2009...
There is a dearth of information on malaria endemicity in the islands of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. In this study malaria prevalence and Plasmodium sporozoite rates on Rusinga Island were investigated. The c...
The current study assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of at-risk populations for malaria and/or dengue fever in relation to...
Botswana significantly reduced its malaria burden between 2000 and 2012. Incidence dropped ... to 0.01 % and deaths attributed to malaria declined from 12 to 3. The country...
Spatio-temporal variations in malaria burden are currently complex and costly to ... We measured the spatio-temporal variation of clinical malaria incidence at a fine scale in a...
The malaria burden of Myanmar still remains high within ... Asia. An important indicator of progress towards malaria elimination is the prevalence of parasite infections in endemic populations. Information about
Mauritania is one of the African countries with ongoing malaria transmission where data on insecticide resistance of local malaria vectors are limited despite an increasing use...Anopheles arabiensis in Nouakchot...
Understanding mosquito resting behaviour is important for the control of vector-borne diseases, but this remains a challenge because of the paucity of efficient sampling tools. We evaluated two novel sampling met...
Mosquitoes are arthropods of major importance to animal and human health because they are able to transmit pathogenic agents such as filarioids (Spirurida), vector-borne nematodes, which reside in the tissues of ...
Clarifying the role of the innate immune system of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae is a potential way to block the development of the Plasmodium parasites. Pathogen recognition is the first step of innate im...
The development of new treatments against schistosomiasis is imperative but lacks commercial interest. Drug repurposing represents a suitable strategy to identify potential treatments, which have already unblocke...
Pyrethroids are the most common class of insecticide used worldwide for indoor residual spraying (IRS) against malaria vectors. Water-dispersible granules (WG) are...Anopheles gambiae in comparison with the WHO r...
Malaria vector control relies principally on the use...An. funestus as well as against wild-caught An. funestus material from Zambia (ZamF), and to investigate the repellent effects of two formulations of C8910 a...
These results suggest that humans overnighting in this forest are frequently inoculated with both human and non-human primate malaria parasites, leading to a situation conducive for the emergence of novel zoonoti...
Insecticide use via indoor residual spraying (IRS) or treated nets is the primary method for controlling malaria vector populations. The incidence of insecticide resistance ... resistance management key to the de...
The life-cycle of many vector-borne pathogens includes an asexual replication phase in the vertebrate host and sexual reproduction in the insect vector. However, as only a small array of parasites can successfull...
Understanding the variation in vector-borne disease transmission intensity across time and space relies on a thorough understanding of the impact of environmental factors on vectorial capacity traits of mosqui...
Avian malaria occurs almost worldwide and is caused by...Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon...). Vectors such as mosquitoes, hippoboscid flies or biting midges are required for the transmission of these p...
Natural infections of the endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia...have recently been discovered in populations of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (s.l.) in Burkina Faso and Mali, West Africa. This Anopheles spec...
Malaria in pregnancy is a major cause of...P. falciparum...-infected erythrocytes (IE) in the placenta. The leading vaccine candidate for pregnancy malaria, VAR2CSA, has been shown to induce...
Swarm characteristics and their consistency across days provide evidences that these facilities can be used confidently to study swarming behavior. These facilities come to complement existing semi-field setups a...
The development and spread of insecticide resistance among malaria vectors, is a threat to the continued ... disease. The status of insecticide resistance among malaria vector populations at two sites in Kome,...
Genetically enhanced Metarhizium pingshaense are being developed for malaria vector control in Burkina Faso. However,...Metarhizium spp.) for entomopathogenic fungi.
Malaria still remains a serious health burden in...Plasmodium falciparum, and the growing resistance of this parasite to the currently available drugs repertoire and of Anopheles...mosquitoes to insecticides, the...
Genotyping malaria parasites to assess their diversity in different...Plasmodium falciparum isolates from uncomplicated malaria cases over a ten year period (2003...msp2).
Mosquito larval source management (LSM) is likely to be more effective when adequate information such as dominant species, seasonal abundance, type of productive habitat, and land use type are available for targe...
Zanthoxylum heitzii...bark extracts have insecticidal properties and have been reported to be used against malaria in Western Africa. Previously, it has...Anopheles gambiae, a malaria ...
Malaria vector control in Africa relies on insecticides ... emergence and rapid rise in insecticide resistance in malaria vectors raises many concerns about their sustainability....kdr mutation frequencies in 20 ...
Malaria infection in mosquitoes is traditionally detected by...Plasmodium oocysts and sporozoites. Although PCR is now widely used, the presence of parasite DNA in a mosquito does not prove that sporogony is achi...
In Kenya, malaria remains a major public health menace equally ... to arid ecologies. However, entomologic knowledge of malaria vectors in such areas remains poor.
Insecticide resistance carries the potential to undermine the efficacy of insecticide based malaria vector control strategies. Therefore, there is...Piper nigrum), used as a food additive and spice, and its princ...
The intensive use of chemical insecticides against mosquitoes has led to the development of widespread insecticide resistance. Control of Anopheles mosquitoes in malaria endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa has .....
Anopheles funestus is a major vector of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to...Anopheles funestus Giles in order to better understand the complex biological processes in this spe...
Mosquitoes were caught in Szeged, in the garden where the infected dog was kept, in July 2013 with M-360 electric mosquito traps and were stored in ethanol until further procedure. Female mosquitoes were classifi...
Increased understanding of the feeding behaviours of malaria vectors is important to determine the frequency...Anopheles mosquitoes in relation to cattle and human host abundance in southwest Ethiopia.
Mosquito control has the potential to significantly reduce malaria burden on a region, but to influence...
The olfactory system plays a crucial role in regulating insect behaviors. The detection of odorants is mainly mediated by various odorant receptors (ORs) that are expressed in the dendrites of olfactory neuron...
With the rapid development and spread of resistance to insecticides among anopheline malaria vectors, the efficacy of current World Health ... abundance and competence, two parameters that influence malaria trans...
Principal malaria vectors in Africa, An. gambiae and An. coluzzii, share an inversion polymorphism on the left arm of chromosome 2 (2La/2L+a) that is distributed non-randomly in the environment. Genomic sequencin...
Novel malaria vector control approaches aim to combine tools ... ’ components for manipulating the odour orientation of malaria vectors in the peri-domestic space.
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