[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of severe Plasmodium knowlesi infection and risk factors related to severe complications compared with non-severe P. knowlesi and severe P …

M Kotepui, KU Kotepui, GD Milanez… - Infectious Diseases of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Plasmodium knowlesi is a potential cause of severe and fatal malaria, but
comprehensive studies of its pooled prevalence and risk factors are lacking. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria distribution and performance of malaria diagnostic methods in Malaysia (1980–2019): a systematic review

MAFA Rahim, MB Munajat, ZM Idris - Malaria journal, 2020 - Springer
Background Malaysia has already achieved remarkable accomplishments in reaching zero
indigenous human malaria cases in 2018. Prompt malaria diagnosis, surveillance and …

Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Sabah, Malaysia, 2015–2017: Ongoing Increase in Incidence Despite Near-elimination of the Human-only Plasmodium Species

DJ Cooper, GS Rajahram, T William… - Clinical infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Malaysia aims to eliminate malaria by 2020. However, while cases of
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax have decreased substantially, the incidence …

[HTML][HTML] Updates on malaria incidence and profile in Malaysia from 2013 to 2017

N Hussin, YAL Lim, PP Goh, T William, J Jelip… - Malaria Journal, 2020 - Springer
Background To date, most of the recent publications on malaria in Malaysia were conducted
in Sabah, East Malaysia focusing on the emergence of Plasmodium knowlesi. This analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Liver function test abnormalities in experimental and clinical Plasmodium vivax infection

A Odedra, L Webb, L Marquart, LJ Britton… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver transaminase elevations after treatment in malaria volunteer infection studies (VISs)
have raised safety concerns. We investigated transaminase elevations from two human …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative evaluation of two commercial real-time PCR kits (QuantiFast™ and abTES™) for the detection of Plasmodium knowlesi and other Plasmodium …

NA Nuin, AF Tan, YL Lew, KA Piera, T William… - Malaria Journal, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The monkey parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is an emerging public
health issue in Southeast Asia. In Sabah, Malaysia, P. knowlesi is now the dominant cause …

A population of CD4hiCD38hi T cells correlates with disease severity in patients with acute malaria

SH Apte, G Minigo, PL Groves… - Clinical & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective CD4+ T cells are critical mediators of immunity to Plasmodium spp. infection, but
their characteristics during malarial episodes and immunopathology in naturally infected …

Surface area-to-volume ratio, not cellular rigidity, determines red blood cell traversal through small capillaries

A Namvar, AJ Blanch, MW Dixon, OMS Carmo, B Liu… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The remarkable deformability of red blood cells (RBCs) depends on the viscoelasticity of the
plasma membrane and cell contents and the surface area to volume (SA: V) ratio; however …

Public health and political economy of development in Africa

I Chirisa, B Mavhima, T Nyevera - The Palgrave Handbook of African …, 2020 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the nexus between public health and political
economy of development in Africa using spatiality as a cog of theoretical and conceptual …

Knowlesi Malaria

YL Lau - 2020 - commonrepo.um.edu.my
Originally a simian malaria, Plasmodium knowlesi is now known as the fifth human malaria
species. Since the report of a large focus of human knowlesi cases in Sarawak in 2004 …