Old and recent advances in life cycle, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of malaria including perspectives in Ethiopia

D Nureye, S Assefa - The Scientific World Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria, caused by apicomplexan parasite, is an old disease and continues to be a major
public health threat in many countries. This article aims to present different aspects of …

Driving antimalarial design through understanding of target mechanism

PPS Calic, M Mansouri, PJ Scammells… - Biochemical Society …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Malaria continues to be a global health threat, affecting approximately 219 million people in
2018 alone. The recurrent development of resistance to existing antimalarials means that …

Recombinase polymerase amplification and lateral flow assay for ultrasensitive detection of low-density Plasmodium falciparum infection from controlled human …

A Lalremruata, TT Nguyen, MBB McCall… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are the main diagnostic tools for malaria but
fail to detect low-density parasitemias that are important for maintaining malaria …

Lead optimization of a pyrrole-based dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor series for the treatment of malaria

S Kokkonda, X Deng, KL White… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Malaria puts at risk nearly half the world's population and causes high mortality in sub-
Saharan Africa, while drug resistance threatens current therapies. The pyrimidine …

[HTML][HTML] Liver enzyme elevations in Plasmodium falciparum volunteer infection studies: findings and recommendations

MF Chughlay, S Akakpo, A Odedra… - The American Journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Malaria volunteer infection studies (VISs) accelerate new drug and vaccine development. In
the induced blood-stage malaria (IBSM) model, volunteers are inoculated with erythrocytes …

Growth Rate of Plasmodium falciparum: Analysis of Parasite Growth Data From Malaria Volunteer Infection Studies

LF Wockner, I Hoffmann, L Webb… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Growth rate of malaria parasites in the blood of infected subjects is an important
measure of efficacy of drugs and vaccines. Methods We used log-linear and sine-wave …

Ivermectin for causal malaria prophylaxis: a randomised controlled human infection trial

WG Metzger, A Theurer, A Pfleiderer… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Ivermectin is safe and widely used for treating helminth infections. It also kills
arthropods feeding on treated subjects, including malaria vectors. Thus, ivermectin mass …

Structural and Biochemical Features of Eimeria tenella Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase, a Potential Drug Target

D Sato, ED Hartuti, DK Inaoka, T Sakura, E Amalia… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) is a mitochondrial monotopic membrane protein
that plays an essential role in the pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis and electron transport …

Community-acquired AKI in Asia: an update

V Kumar, V Jha - Seminars in Nephrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Community-acquired acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is the dominant form of AKI encountered
in developing countries in Asia. Economic disparities, variations in access to health care …

Current medicines for malaria including resistance issues

D Nureye, M Salahaddin… - Journal of Pharmacology …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Malaria is an old disease and continues to be a major health problem in many countries. In
spite of decrement in morbidity and mortality due to malaria, the transmission is still active …