Malaria prevention in children: an update

DAJ Friedman-Klabanoff, D Adu-Gyasi… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
While challenges remain in malaria control towards elimination, new guidelines and recently
approved vaccines offer hope. Monitoring for continued vaccine and chemoprevention …

Plasmodium falciparum infection in humans and mosquitoes influence natural Anopheline biting behavior and transmission

CF Markwalter, Z Lapp, L Abel, E Kimachas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The human infectious reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum is governed by transmission
efficiency during vector-human contact and mosquito biting preferences. Understanding …

À la carte: how mosquitoes choose their blood meals

SL Blanken, WP O'Meara, FJH Hol, T Bousema… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Mosquitoes are important vectors for human diseases, transmitting pathogens that cause a
range of parasitic and viral infections. Mosquito blood-feeding is heterogeneous, meaning …

bistro: An R package for vector bloodmeal identification by short tandem repeat overlap

Z Lapp, L Abel, J Mangeni, AA Obala… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring vector–human contact in a natural setting can inform precise targeting of
interventions to interrupt transmission of vector‐borne diseases. One approach is to directly …

Modeling the within-host dynamics of Plasmodium vivax hypnozoite activation: An analysis of the SPf66 vaccine trial

S Mehra, F Nosten, C Luxemburger, NJ White… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Plasmodium vivax parasites can lie dormant in the liver as hypnozoites, activating weeks to
months after sporozoite inoculation to cause relapsing malarial illness. It is not known what …

Mosquito and human characteristics influence natural Anopheline biting behavior and Plasmodium falciparum transmission

CF Markwalter, Z Lapp, L Abel, E Kimachas, E Omollo… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
The human infectious reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites is governed by
the efficiency of parasite transmission during vector human contact as well as mosquito …

Plasma from older children in Malawi inhibits Plasmodium falciparum binding in 3D brain microvessels

F Joof, R Hu, A Saidi, KB Seydel… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A hallmark of cerebral malaria is sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected
erythrocytes (IEs) in the brain microcirculation. Antibodies contribute to malaria immunity, but …

[HTML][HTML] Host Preferences and Impact of Climate on Blood Feeding in Anopheles funestus Group from South Africa

TM Mwamba, Y Dahan-Moss… - Tropical Medicine …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Anopheles vaneedeni and Anopheles parensis (members of the An. funestus group) are
generally not considered malaria vectors. However, both species were recently identified as …

[HTML][HTML] A Five-Year Malaria Prevalence/Frequency in Makenene in a Forest–Savannah Transition Ecozone of Central Cameroon: The Results of a Retrospective …

J Djoufounna, R Bamou, JV Foyet, LG Ningahi… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Objective: Understanding the epidemiological features of malaria is a key step to monitoring
and quantifying the impact of the current control efforts to inform future ones. This study …

Marked heterogeneity in malaria infection risk in a Malian longitudinal cohort

E LaVerriere, ZM Johnson, M Shieh, N Nziza, G Alter… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Variation in malaria infection risk, a product of disease exposure and immunity, is poorly
understood. We genotypically profiled over 13,000 blood samples from a six-year …