Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary

RGA Feachem, I Chen, O Akbari, A Bertozzi-Villa… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary 50 years after a noble but flawed attempt to eradicate malaria in the mid-
20th century, the global malaria community is once again seriously considering eradication …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2020: extending immunopharmacology content and introducing the IUPHAR/MMV Guide to MALARIA …

JF Armstrong, E Faccenda, SD Harding… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (www. guidetopharmacology. org) is
an open-access, expert-curated database of molecular interactions between ligands and …

Engineering a rugged nanoscaffold to enhance plug-and-display vaccination

TUJ Bruun, AMC Andersson, SJ Draper, M Howarth - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale organization is crucial to stimulating an immune response. Using self-
assembling proteins as multimerization platforms provides a safe and immunogenic system …

Bone marrow is a major parasite reservoir in Plasmodium vivax infection

N Obaldia III, E Meibalan, JM Sa, S Ma, MA Clark… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Plasmodium vivax causes heavy burdens of disease across malarious regions worldwide.
Mature P. vivax asexual and transmissive gametocyte stages occur in the blood circulation …

A comprehensive model for assessment of liver stage therapies targeting Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum

A Roth, SP Maher, AJ Conway, R Ubalee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Malaria liver stages represent an ideal therapeutic target with a bottleneck in parasite load
and reduced clinical symptoms; however, current in vitro pre-erythrocytic (PE) models for …

Persistent transmission of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale species in an area of declining Plasmodium falciparum transmission in eastern Tanzania

V Yman, G Wandell, DD Mutemi, A Miglar… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A reduction in the global burden of malaria over the past two decades has encouraged
efforts for regional malaria elimination. Despite the need to target all Plasmodium species …

Safety, tolerability, and Plasmodium falciparum transmission-reducing activity of monoclonal antibody TB31F: a single-centre, open-label, first-in-human, dose …

SC van der Boor, MJ Smit, SW van Beek… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Malaria elimination requires interruption of the highly efficient transmission of
Plasmodium parasites by mosquitoes. TB31F is a humanised monoclonal antibody that …

Development and validation of serological markers for detecting recent Plasmodium vivax infection

RJ Longley, MT White, E Takashima, J Brewster… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
A major gap in the Plasmodium vivax elimination toolkit is the identification of individuals
carrying clinically silent and undetectable liver-stage parasites, called hypnozoites. This …

Immunity against sexual stage Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasites

RM de Jong, SK Tebeje… - Immunological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient spread of malaria from infected humans to mosquitoes is a major challenge for
malaria elimination initiatives. Gametocytes are the only Plasmodium life stage infectious to …