Achieving global malaria eradication in changing landscapes

KM Fornace, AV Diaz, J Lines, CJ Drakeley - Malaria journal, 2021 - Springer
Land use and land cover changes, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion and
urbanization, are one of the largest anthropogenic environmental changes globally. Recent …

Plasmodium knowlesi: the game changer for malaria eradication

WC Lee, FW Cheong, A Amir, MY Lai, JH Tan… - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Plasmodium knowlesi is a zoonotic malaria parasite that has gained increasing medical
interest over the past two decades. This zoonotic parasitic infection is prevalent in Southeast …

Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries

J Waage, D Grace, EM Fèvre, J McDermott… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to
the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging …

Environmental risk factors and exposure to the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi across northern Sabah, Malaysia: a population-based cross-sectional …

KM Fornace, PM Brock, TR Abidin… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Land use changes disrupt ecosystems, altering the transmission of vector-
borne diseases. These changes have been associated with increasing incidence of zoonotic …

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 …

Predictive analysis across spatial scales links zoonotic malaria to deforestation

PM Brock, KM Fornace, MJ Grigg… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The complex transmission ecologies of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases pose
challenges to their control, especially in changing landscapes. Human incidence of zoonotic …

Malaria elimination in Malaysia and the rising threat of Plasmodium knowlesi

AZ Chin, MCM Maluda, J Jelip, MSB Jeffree… - Journal of physiological …, 2020 - Springer
Background Malaria is a major public-health problem, with over 40% of the world's
population (more than 3.3 billion people) at risk from the disease. Malaysia has committed to …

Simian malaria: a narrative review on emergence, epidemiology and threat to global malaria elimination

KM Fornace, GZ Laporta, I Vythilingham… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Simian malaria from wild non-human primate populations is increasingly recognised as a
public health threat and is now the main cause of human malaria in Malaysia and some …

Exposure and infection to Plasmodium knowlesi in case study communities in Northern Sabah, Malaysia and Palawan, The Philippines

KM Fornace, LS Herman, TR Abidin… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Primarily impacting poor, rural populations, the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium
knowlesi is now the main cause of human malaria within Malaysian Borneo. While data is …

Age-Related Clinical Spectrum of Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria and Predictors of Severity

MJ Grigg, T William, BE Barber… - Clinical infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Plasmodium knowlesi is increasingly reported in Southeast Asia, but
prospective studies of its clinical spectrum in children and comparison with autochthonous …