Malaria chemoprevention and drug resistance: a review of the literature and policy implications

CV Plowe - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Chemoprevention strategies reduce malaria disease and death, but the efficacy of anti-
malarial drugs used for chemoprevention is perennially threatened by drug resistance. This …

Advances and opportunities in malaria population genomics

DE Neafsey, AR Taylor, BL MacInnis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

Drug resistance and vaccine target surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum using nanopore sequencing in Ghana

ST Girgis, E Adika, FE Nenyewodey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria results in over 600,000 deaths annually, with the highest burden of deaths in young
children living in sub-Saharan Africa. Molecular surveillance can provide important …

Prevalence of mutations associated with artemisinin partial resistance and sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine resistance in 13 regions in Tanzania in 2021: a cross-sectional …

JJ Juliano, DJ Giesbrecht, A Simkin, AA Fola… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background The emergence of the artemisinin partial resistance (ART-R) mutation in the
Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 gene (k13), Arg561His, in Rwanda and the regional …

The impact of antimalarial resistance on the genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the DRC

R Verity, O Aydemir, NF Brazeau, OJ Watson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) harbors 11% of global malaria
cases, yet little is known about the spatial and genetic structure of the parasite population in …

[HTML][HTML] Country wide surveillance reveals prevalent artemisinin partial resistance mutations with evidence for multiple origins and expansion of high level sulfadoxine …

JJ Juliano, DJ Giesbrecht, A Simkin, AA Fola… - medrxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Emergence of artemisinin partial resistance (ART-R) in Plasmodium falciparum
is a growing threat to the efficacy of artemisinin combination therapies (ACT) and the efforts …

Describing the current status of Plasmodium falciparum population structure and drug resistance within mainland Tanzania using molecular inversion probes

KA Moser, RA Madebe, O Aydemir… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput Plasmodium genomic data is increasingly useful in assessing prevalence
of clinically important mutations and malaria transmission patterns. Understanding parasite …

Potential opportunities and challenges of deploying next generation sequencing and CRISPR-Cas systems to support diagnostics and surveillance towards malaria …

BM Lyimo, ZR Popkin-Hall, DJ Giesbrecht… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent developments in molecular biology and genomics have revolutionized biology and
medicine mainly in the developed world. The application of next generation sequencing …

Falciparum malaria from coastal Tanzania and Zanzibar remains highly connected despite effective control efforts on the archipelago

AP Morgan, NF Brazeau, B Ngasala, LE Mhamilawa… - Malaria journal, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago has made significant gains in malaria
control over the last decade and is a target for malaria elimination. Despite consistent …

Intermittent preventive treatment with Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine for malaria: a global overview and challenges affecting optimal drug uptake in pregnant women

RRD Nana, J Hawadak, LPK Foko… - … and Global Health, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) leading to morbidity and mortality is a major public
health problem that poses significant risk to pregnant women and their fetus. To cope with …