Malaria in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela: current challenges in malaria control and elimination

J Recht, AM Siqueira, WM Monteiro, SM Herrera… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
In spite of significant progress towards malaria control and elimination achieved in South
America in the 2000s, this mosquito-transmitted tropical disease remains an important public …

The primate malaria parasites Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium brasilianum and Plasmodium ovale spp.: genomic insights into distribution, dispersal and host …

HP Fuehrer, S Campino, CJ Sutherland - Malaria journal, 2022 - Springer
During the twentieth century, there was an explosion in understanding of the malaria
parasites infecting humans and wild primates. This was built on three main data sources …

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 …

What Is Known about the Immune Response Induced by Plasmodium vivax Malaria Vaccine Candidates?

C López, Y Yepes-Pérez, N Hincapié-Escobar… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax continues being one of the most important infectious
diseases around the world; P. vivax is the second most prevalent species and has the …

Selective whole genome amplification of Plasmodium malariae DNA from clinical samples reveals insights into population structure

A Ibrahim, E Diez Benavente, D Nolder, S Proux… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The genomic diversity of Plasmodium malariae malaria parasites is understudied, partly
because infected individuals tend to present with low parasite densities, leading to …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium malariae prevalence and csp gene diversity, Kenya, 2014 and 2015

E Lo, K Nguyen, J Nguyen… - Emerging Infectious …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In Africa, control programs that target primarily Plasmodium falciparum are inadequate for
eliminating malaria. To learn more about prevalence and genetic variability of P. malariae in …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic characteristics of lactate dehydrogenase on a multiplex assay for malaria detection including the zoonotic parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

R Barney, M Velasco, CA Cooper… - The American journal …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) is a common target in malaria rapid diagnostic
tests (RDTs). These commercial antibody capture assays target either Plasmodium …

[HTML][HTML] Development of cooperative primer-based real-time PCR assays for the detection of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale

F Ansah, J Suurbaar, D Darko, NG Anabire… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale are increasingly gaining public health
attention as the global transmission of falciparum malaria is decreasing. However, the …

Micro-epidemiology of mixed-species malaria infections in a rural population living in the Colombian Amazon region

M Camargo, SC Soto-De León, L Del Río-Ospina… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Malaria outbreaks have been reported in recent years in the Colombian Amazon region,
malaria has been re-emerging in areas where it was previously controlled. Information from …

Asymptomatic Plasmodium malariae infections in children from suburban areas of Yaoundé, Cameroon

DNR Roman, NNA Rosalie, A Kumar… - Parasitology …, 2018 - Elsevier
The gold standard for malaria diagnosis is the microscopic examination of Giemsa stained
thick blood smears though microscopy mostly may not detect the presence of Plasmodium …