Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?

MD Conrad, PJ Rosenthal - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 - thelancet.com
Antimalarial drug resistance, in particular resistance to Plasmodium falciparum, challenges
the treatment and control of malaria. In this Review, we summarise evolving patterns of …

Epidemiology and infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax gametocytes in relation to malaria control and elimination

T Bousema, C Drakeley - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the tropics, with Plasmodium
falciparum responsible for the majority of the disease burden and P. vivax being the …

Challenges for malaria elimination in Brazil

MU Ferreira, MC Castro - Malaria journal, 2016 - Springer
Brazil currently contributes 42% of all malaria cases reported in the Latin America and the
Caribbean, a region where major progress towards malaria elimination has been achieved …

UK malaria treatment guidelines 2016

DG Lalloo, D Shingadia, DJ Bell, NJ Beeching… - Journal of Infection, 2016 - Elsevier
Malaria is the tropical disease most commonly imported into the UK, with 1300–1800 cases
reported each year, and 2–11 deaths. 2. Approximately three quarters of reported malaria …

Imaging of Plasmodium Liver Stages to Drive Next-Generation Antimalarial Drug Discovery

S Meister, DM Plouffe, KL Kuhen, GMC Bonamy, T Wu… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Most malaria drug development focuses on parasite stages detected in red blood cells, even
though, to achieve eradication, next-generation drugs active against both erythrocytic and …

Primaquine revisited six decades after its discovery

N Vale, R Moreira, P Gomes - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Primaquine was firstly synthesized in 1946 in the USA, and is the most representative
member of the anti-malarial 8-aminoquinolines. Six decades have passed and primaquine …

G6PD deficiency: global distribution, genetic variants and primaquine therapy

RE Howes, KE Battle, AW Satyagraha, JK Baird… - Advances in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a potentially pathogenic inherited
enzyme abnormality and, similar to other human red blood cell polymorphisms, is …

Directly compressed tablets: A novel drug‐containing reservoir combined with hydrogel‐forming microneedle arrays for transdermal drug delivery

E McAlister, B Dutton, LK Vora, L Zhao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedle (MN) patches consist of a hydrogel‐forming MN array and a drug‐containing
reservoir. Drug‐containing reservoirs documented in the literature include polymeric films …

[HTML][HTML] Doxycycline for malaria chemoprophylaxis and treatment: report from the CDC expert meeting on malaria chemoprophylaxis

KR Tan, AJ Magill, ME Parise… - The American journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Doxycycline, a synthetically derived tetracycline, is a partially efficacious causal prophylactic
(liver stage of Plasmodium) drug and a slow acting blood schizontocidal agent highly …

Resistance to Therapies for Infection by Plasmodium vivax

JK Baird - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
The gravity of the threat posed by vivax malaria to public health has been poorly
appreciated. The widely held misperception of Plasmodium vivax as being relatively …