The promise of a malaria vaccine—are we closer?

MB Laurens - Annual review of microbiology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Malaria vaccine development has rapidly advanced in the past decade. The very first phase
3 clinical trial of the RTS, S vaccine was completed with over 15,000 African infants and …

Forest malaria in Cambodia: the occupational and spatial clustering of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection risk in a cross-sectional survey in …

M Sandfort, A Vantaux, S Kim, T Obadia, A Pepey… - Malaria journal, 2020 - Springer
Background After a marked reduction in malaria burden in Cambodia over the last decades,
case numbers increased again in 2017–2018. In light of the national goal of malaria …

Malaria hotspots: is there epidemiological evidence for fine-scale spatial targeting of interventions?

G Stresman, T Bousema, J Cook - Trends in parasitology, 2019 - cell.com
As data at progressively granular spatial scales become available, the temptation is to target
interventions to areas with higher malaria transmission–so-called hotspots–with the aim of …

Asymptomatic malaria in the clinical and public health context

J Cheaveau, DC Mogollon, MAN Mohon… - Expert review of anti …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Historically, the global community has focused on the control of symptomatic
malaria. However, interest in asymptomatic malaria has been growing, particularly in the …

Relative contribution of low-density and asymptomatic infections to Plasmodium vivax transmission in the Amazon: pooled analysis of individual participant data from …

MU Ferreira, RM Corder, IC Johansen… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Low-density and asymptomatic Plasmodium vivax infections remain largely
undetected and untreated and may contribute significantly to malaria transmission in the …

Variation in natural exposure to anopheles mosquitoes and its effects on malaria transmission

WM Guelbeogo, BP Gonçalves, L Grignard, J Bradley… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Variation in biting frequency by Anopheles mosquitoes can explain some of the
heterogeneity in malaria transmission in endemic areas. In this study in Burkina Faso, we …

Genotyping of Anopheles mosquito blood meals reveals nonrandom human host selection: implications for human-to-mosquito Plasmodium falciparum transmission

RB Mbewe, JB Keven, C Mangani, ML Wilson… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background Control of malaria parasite transmission can be enhanced by understanding
which human demographic groups serve as the infectious reservoirs. Because vector biting …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax gametocyte carriage: implication for malaria control and elimination

A Alemayehu - Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2023 - Elsevier
Malaria is among the leading public health problems worldwide. Female anopheles
mosquito orchestrates the transmission of malaria by taking gametocytes and introducing …

Operational performance of a Plasmodium falciparum ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic test for detection of asymptomatic infections in Eastern Myanmar

J Landier, W Haohankhunnatham, S Das… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT In the Greater Mekong Subregion in Southeast Asia, malaria elimination
strategies need to target all Plasmodium falciparum parasites, including those carried …

Time for malaria control in school-age children

LM Cohee, JI Nankabirwa, B Greenwood… - The Lancet Child & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
School-age children (6–15 years) bear an underappreciated burden of malaria. Across sub-
Saharan Africa, the prevalence of infection peaks in this age group, and an estimated 200 …