Background Parasitic diseases are one of the world's most devastating and prevalent
infections, causing millions of morbidities and mortalities annually. In the past, many of these …

Malaria causes high levels of morbidity and mortality in human beings worldwide. According
to the World Health Organization (WHO), about half a million people die of this disease each …

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a novel nucleic acid amplification method,
was developed for the clinical detection of four species of human malaria parasites …

The resurgence of the malaria eradication agenda and the increasing number of severe
manifestation reports has contributed to a renewed interested in the Plasmodium vivax …

Background The epidemiology and severity of non-falciparum malaria in endemic settings
has garnered little attention. We aimed to characterise the prevalence, interaction, clinical …

Resistance to Plasmodium vivax blood-stage infection has been widely recognised to result
from absence of the Duffy (Fy) blood group from the surface of red blood cells (RBCs) in …

Background Several strategies are currently deployed in many countries in the tropics to
strengthen malaria control toward malaria elimination. To measure the impact of any …

Background Asymptomatic falciparum and non-falciparum malaria infections are major
challenges to malaria control interventions, as they remain a source of continual infection in …

Improving strategies for diagnosing infection by the four human Plasmodium species
parasites is important as field-based epidemiologic and clinical studies focused on malaria …

Abstract Background Six Plasmodium species are known to naturally infect humans. Mixed
species infections occur regularly but morphological discrimination by microscopy is difficult …