Serum procalcitonin (PCT) was measured in 228 children aged 1 month to 15 years at an
emergency department of a hospital located in an area without local malaria transmission in …

Background Despite many technological advances for malaria parasite detection (eg high
resolution image acquisition), microscopic reading of thick blood smear (TBS) remains the …

Progress in malaria control has stalled over the recent years. Knowledge on main drivers of
transmission explaining small-scale variation in prevalence can inform targeted control …

Climate change/variability is a major driving factor among others that contribute to the
spread of suitable malaria vectors' geographical extent. The current study employed …

Effective capture and elimination of indoor resting mosquito population is important in the
fight against mosquito borne diseases. This study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of a …

Background After a global decline, malaria cases re-increases have been shown recently.
The aim of this analysis was to update the epidemiological facies of malaria in Burkina Faso …

Objectives To examine the prevalence of dehydration without diarrhoea among admitted
children aged 1–59 months and to describe fluid management practices in such cases …

Malaria is a leading cause of deaths in Kenya. A vector-borne disease caused by parasite of
genus plasmodium; the disease is introduced into the human circulatory system from bites …

Geostatistical models are widely used to analyze malaria data, and obtain spatial
predictions at un-sampled locations based on the First Law of Geography (close things in …

Introduction Plasmodium falciparum relies on gametocytogenesis to transmit from humans to
mosquitoes. Gametocyte development 1 (Pfgdv1) is an upstream activator and epigenetic …