Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia

AA Fola, SM Feleke, H Mohammed, BG Brhane… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diagnosis and treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections are required for effective
malaria control and are pre-requisites for malaria elimination efforts; hence we need to …

Mapping the global endemicity and clinical burden of Plasmodium vivax, 2000–17: a spatial and temporal modelling study

KE Battle, TCD Lucas, M Nguyen, RE Howes… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Plasmodium vivax exacts a significant toll on health worldwide, yet few efforts to
date have quantified the extent and temporal trends of its global distribution. Given the …

Dual effector population modification gene-drive strains of the African malaria mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii

R Carballar-Lejarazú, Y Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Proposed genetic approaches for reducing human malaria include population modification,
which introduces genes into vector mosquitoes to reduce or prevent parasite transmission …

Malaria hotspots: is there epidemiological evidence for fine-scale spatial targeting of interventions?

G Stresman, T Bousema, J Cook - Trends in parasitology, 2019 - cell.com
As data at progressively granular spatial scales become available, the temptation is to target
interventions to areas with higher malaria transmission–so-called hotspots–with the aim of …

Leveraging innovation technologies to respond to malaria: a systematized literature review of emerging technologies

M Chibi, W Wasswa, C Ngongoni, E Baba, A Kalu - Malaria journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2019, an estimated 409,000 people died of malaria and most of
them were young children in sub-Saharan Africa. In a bid to combat malaria epidemics …

Growing evidence of Plasmodium vivax across malaria-endemic Africa

KA Twohig, DA Pfeffer, JK Baird, RN Price… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Effective malaria control strategies require an accurate understanding of the epidemiology of
locally transmitted Plasmodium species. Compared to Plasmodium falciparum infection …

Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi

OC Villena, SJ Ryan, CC Murdock, LR Johnson - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extrinsic environmental factors influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of many organisms,
including insects that transmit the pathogens responsible for vector‐borne diseases (VBDs) …

Global estimates of the number of pregnancies at risk of malaria from 2007 to 2020: a demographic study

V Reddy, DJ Weiss, J Rozier, FO Ter Kuile… - The Lancet Global …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The most recent global estimates of the number of pregnancies at risk of
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria infection are from 2007. To inform …

An efficient model of residual based convolutional neural network with Bayesian optimization for the classification of malarial cell images

A Diker - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Malaria is a disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which results in
millions of deaths in the human population worldwide each year. It is therefore considered a …

Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents

OC Villena, A Arab, CA Lippi, SJ Ryan, LR Johnson - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The interactions of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological
factors in shaping mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics are complex and …