Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

Discovering new transmission-blocking antimalarial compounds: challenges and opportunities

LM Birkholtz, TL Coetzer, D Mancama, D Leroy… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
The ability to target human–mosquito parasite transmission challenges global malaria
elimination. However, it is not obvious what a transmission-blocking drug will look like; …

A combination of new screening assays for prioritization of transmission-blocking antimalarials reveals distinct dynamics of marketed and experimental drugs

JM Bolscher, KMJ Koolen… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The development of drugs to reduce malaria transmission is an important part of
malaria eradication plans. We set out to develop and validate a combination of new …

Blocking Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission with Drugs: The Gametocytocidal and Sporontocidal Properties of Current and Prospective Antimalarials

AE Kiszewski - Pharmaceuticals, 2010 - mdpi.com
Drugs that kill or inhibit the sexual stages of Plasmodium could potentially amplify or
synergize the impact of other interventions by blocking transmission to mosquitoes …

Fueling open innovation for malaria transmission-blocking drugs: hundreds of molecules targeting early parasite mosquito stages

M Delves, MJ Lafuente-Monasterio, L Upton… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background Despite recent successes at controlling malaria, progress has stalled with an
estimated 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths in 2017 alone. Combined with emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Adapt or die: targeting unique transmission-stage biology for malaria elimination

ME van der Watt, J Reader… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plasmodium parasites have a complex life cycle that includes development in the human
host as well as the Anopheles vector. Successful transmission of the parasite between its …

Transmission-blocking strategies: the roadmap from laboratory bench to the community

D Gonçalves, P Hunziker - Malaria Journal, 2016 - Springer
Malaria remains one of the most prevalent tropical and infectious diseases in the world, with
an estimated more than 200 million clinical cases every year. In recent years, the mosquito …

[PDF][PDF] High-throughput assay and discovery of small molecules that interrupt malaria transmission

DM Plouffe, M Wree, AY Du, S Meister, F Li, K Patra… - Cell host & …, 2016 - cell.com
Preventing transmission is an important element of malaria control. However, most of the
current available methods to assay for malaria transmission blocking are relatively low …

A high-throughput screen targeting malaria transmission stages opens new avenues for drug development

K Buchholz, TA Burke, KC Williamson… - Journal of Infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A major goal of the worldwide malaria eradication program is the reduction and eventual
elimination of malaria transmission. All currently available antimalarial compounds were …

Plasmodium cell biology should inform strategies used in the development of antimalarial transmission-blocking drugs

MJ Delves - Future medicinal chemistry, 2012 - Future Science
Malaria is a disease with a devastating impact affecting 216 million people each year and
causing 655,000 deaths, most of which are children under 5 years old. Recent appreciation …