Update on malaria

R Varo, C Chaccour, Q Bassat - Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2020 - Elsevier
Despite recent successful efforts to reduce the global malaria burden, this disease remains a
significant global health problem. Only in 2018, malaria caused 228 million clinical …

The economic and social burden of malaria

J Sachs, P Malaney - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Where malaria prospers most, human societies have prospered least. The global distribution
of per-capita gross domestic product shows a striking correlation between malaria and …

[图书][B] Epilepsy: a public health imperative

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
Epilepsy is a brain disease characterized by abnormal electrical activity causing seizures or
unusual behaviour, sensations and sometimes loss of awareness. It carries neurological …

Cerebral Plasmodium falciparum malaria: The role of PfEMP1 in its pathogenesis and immunity, and PfEMP1‐based vaccines to prevent it

AR Jensen, Y Adams, L Hviid - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria, a mosquito‐borne infectious disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium
continues to be a major health problem worldwide. The unicellular Plasmodium‐parasites …

Epidemiology and burden of malaria in pregnancy

M Desai, FO Ter Kuile, F Nosten… - The Lancet infectious …, 2007 - thelancet.com
We reviewed evidence of the clinical implications and burden of malaria in pregnancy. Most
studies come from sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately 25 million pregnant women are …

Oxidative stress in malaria parasite-infected erythrocytes: host–parasite interactions

K Becker, L Tilley, JL Vennerstrom, D Roberts… - International journal for …, 2004 - Elsevier
Experimenta naturae, like the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, indicate that
malaria parasites are highly susceptible to alterations in the redox equilibrium. This offers a …

Impact of malaria during pregnancy on low birth weight in sub-Saharan Africa

HL Guyatt, RW Snow - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Malaria during pregnancy can result in low birth weight (LBW), an important risk factor for
infant mortality. This article reviews the pathological effects of malaria during pregnancy and …

Conquering the intolerable burden of malaria: what's new, what's needed: a summary.

JG Breman, MS Alilio, A Mills - The American journal …, 2004 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
Each year, up to three million deaths due to malaria and close to five billion episodes of
clinical illness possibly meriting antimalarial therapy occur throughout the world, with Africa …

Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and pooled analysis

I Carneiro, A Roca-Feltrer, JT Griffin, L Smith… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background There is evidence that the age-pattern of Plasmodium falciparum malaria varies
with transmission intensity. A better understanding of how this varies with the severity of …

[HTML][HTML] The neuropathology of fatal cerebral malaria in malawian children

K Dorovini-Zis, K Schmidt, H Huynh, W Fu… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
We examined the brains of 50 Malawian children who satisfied the clinical definition of
cerebral malaria (CM) during life; 37 children had sequestration of infected red blood cells …