Effect of Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive therapy for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: a …

AM van Eijk, DA Larsen, K Kayentao… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
threatens the antimalarial effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment during …

Advances in nanomedicines for malaria treatment

NP Aditya, PG Vathsala, V Vieira, RSR Murthy… - Advances in colloid and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Malaria is an infectious disease that mainly affects children and pregnant women from
tropical countries. The mortality rate of people infected with malaria per year is enormous …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

RAiSD detects positive selection based on multiple signatures of a selective sweep and SNP vectors

N Alachiotis, P Pavlidis - Communications biology, 2018 - nature.com
Selective sweeps leave distinct signatures locally in genomes, enabling the detection of loci
that have undergone recent positive selection. Multiple signatures of a selective sweep are …

Selection and spread of artemisinin-resistant alleles in Thailand prior to the global artemisinin resistance containment campaign

E Talundzic, SA Okoth, K Congpuong… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The recent emergence of artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion poses a
major threat to the global effort to control malaria. Tracking the spread and evolution of …

Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance: implications for the development and containment of artemisinin resistance

T Mita, K Tanabe - Japanese journal of infectious diseases, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Malaria is a protozoan disease transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. Among
five species that can infect humans, Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most …

Emerging implications of policies on malaria treatment: genetic changes in the Pfmdr-1 gene affecting susceptibility to artemether–lumefantrine and artesunate …

LC Okell, LM Reiter, LS Ebbe, V Baraka, D Bisanzio… - BMJ global …, 2018 - gh.bmj.com
Artemether–lumefantrine (AL) and artesunate–amodiaquine (AS-AQ) are the most
commonly used artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) for treatment of …

Efficacy of artemether–lumefantrine, artesunate–amodiaquine, and dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in …

MM Plucinski, PR Dimbu, AP Macaia, CM Ferreira… - Malaria Journal, 2017 - Springer
Background Recent anti-malarial resistance monitoring in Angola has shown efficacy of
artemether–lumefantrine (AL) in certain sites approaching the key 90% lower limit of efficacy …

Fighting fire with fire: mass antimalarial drug administrations in an era of antimalarial resistance

L Von Seidlein, A Dondorp - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence and spread of antimalarial resistance has been a major liability for malaria
control. The spread of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains had catastrophic …

High prevalence of PfdhfrPfdhps quadruple mutations associated with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Bioko Island …

T Jiang, J Chen, H Fu, K Wu, Y Yao, JUM Eyi… - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background Sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended for intermittent preventive
treatment of malaria in Africa. However, increasing SP resistance (SPR) affects the …