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 …

Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malaria vector, continues to expand across Africa. The
vector is now firmly established in urban settings in the Horn of Africa. Its presence in areas …

Asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium parasites hamper malaria control and eradication.
Achieving malaria eradication requires ultrasensitive diagnostics for low parasite density …

In Africa, most rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for falciparum malaria recognize histidine-rich
protein 2 antigen. Plasmodium falciparum parasites lacking histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp2) …

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A major obstacle to malaria elimination is the great capacity of the parasite and vector
populations to evolve in response to malaria control interventions. The widespread use of …

False-negative results for Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein (HRP) 2–based
rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are increasing in Eritrea. We investigated HRP gene 2/3 …

The major growth in point-of-care malaria diagnosis over the past decade has been based
on immunochromatographic malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), which generally detect …

We identified 480 persons with positive thick smears for asexual Plasmodium falciparum
parasites, of whom 454 had positive rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for the histidine-rich …