Malaria diagnostic update: From conventional to advanced method

LE Fitri, T Widaningrum, AT Endharti… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Update diagnostic methods play essential roles in dealing with the current
global malaria situation and decreasing malaria incidence. Aim Global malaria control …

Burden of mosquito-borne diseases across rural versus urban areas in Cameroon between 2002 and 2021: prospective for community-oriented vector management …

LD Alenou, P Nwane, LR Mbakop, M Piameu… - Parasites & vectors, 2023 - Springer
Background Over the past two decades, Cameroon has recorded one of the highest rates of
urban population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that more than 67% of …

Trends in malaria prevalence and risk factors associated with the disease in Nkongho-mbeng; a typical rural setting in the equatorial rainforest of the South West …

RB Nyasa, EL Fotabe, RN Ndip - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Globally, malaria in recent years has witnessed a decline in the number of cases and death,
though the most recent world malaria report shows a slight decrease in the number of cases …

Asymptomatic malaria infections in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: experience from the Central African Republic

E Bylicka-Szczepanowska, K Korzeniewski - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
According to the latest World Health Organization malaria report, 95% of 241 million global
malaria cases and 96% of 627,000 malaria deaths that were recorded in 2020 occurred in …

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: literary review and recommendation for a quality assurance, quality control algorithm

MJ Kavanaugh, SE Azzam, DM Rockabrand - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have had an enormous global impact which
contributed to the World Health Organization paradigm shift from empiric treatment to …

Impact of Malaria Diagnostic Technologies on the Disease Burden in the Sub‐Saharan Africa

J Wambani, P Okoth - Journal of tropical medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, transmission of emerging and reemerging malaria infections poses a significant
threat to human health in the Sub‐Saharan Africa, one that can quickly overwhelm public …

The design and evaluation of a mobile system for rapid diagnostic test interpretation

C Park, H Ngo, LR Lavitt, V Karuri, S Bhatt… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) provide point-of-care medical screening without the need for
expensive laboratory equipment. RDTs are theoretically straightforward to use, yet their …

Rapid diagnostic tests for Trypanosoma cruzi infection: field evaluation of two registered kits in a region of endemicity and a region of nonendemicity in Argentina

C Lopez-Albizu, E Danesi, P Piorno… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease [ChD]) affects around 7 million
people in the Americas, most of whom are unaware of their status due to lack of clinical …

Laboratory detection of malaria antigens: a strong tool for malaria research, diagnosis, and epidemiology

M Plucinski, M Aidoo, E Rogier - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The identification and characterization of proteins produced during human infection with
Plasmodium spp. have guided the malaria community in research, diagnosis, epidemiology …

Epidemiology of malaria, schistosomiasis, and geohelminthiasis amongst children 3–15 years of age during the dry season in Northern Cameroon

FN Nkemngo, L WG Raissa, DN Nebangwa… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The double burden of malaria and helminthiasis in children poses an obvious
public health challenge, particularly in terms of anemia morbidity. While both diseases …