Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?

MD Conrad, PJ Rosenthal - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 - thelancet.com
Antimalarial drug resistance, in particular resistance to Plasmodium falciparum, challenges
the treatment and control of malaria. In this Review, we summarise evolving patterns of …

Advances and opportunities in malaria population genomics

DE Neafsey, AR Taylor, BL MacInnis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia

AA Fola, SM Feleke, H Mohammed, BG Brhane… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diagnosis and treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections are required for effective
malaria control and are pre-requisites for malaria elimination efforts; hence we need to …

Changing prevalence of potential mediators of aminoquinoline, antifolate, and artemisinin resistance across Uganda

V Asua, MD Conrad, O Aydemir… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background In Uganda, artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for malaria
treatment and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for chemoprevention during pregnancy, but drug …

Plasmodium falciparum is evolving to escape malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Ethiopia

SM Feleke, EN Reichert, H Mohammed… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In Africa, most rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for falciparum malaria recognize histidine-rich
protein 2 antigen. Plasmodium falciparum parasites lacking histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp2) …

Using parasite genetic and human mobility data to infer local and cross-border malaria connectivity in Southern Africa

S Tessema, A Wesolowski, A Chen, M Murphy… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Local and cross-border importation remain major challenges to malaria elimination and are
difficult to measure using traditional surveillance data. To address this challenge, we …

Multiplexed ddPCR-amplicon sequencing reveals isolated Plasmodium falciparum populations amenable to local elimination in Zanzibar, Tanzania

A Holzschuh, A Lerch, I Gerlovina, BS Fakih… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Zanzibar has made significant progress toward malaria elimination, but recent stagnation
requires novel approaches. We developed a highly multiplexed droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) …

Molecular markers for malaria genetic epidemiology: progress and pitfalls

S Ruybal-Pesántez, K McCann, J Vibin, S Siegel… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Over recent years, progress in molecular markers for genotyping malaria parasites has
enabled informative studies of epidemiology and transmission dynamics. Results have …

The impact of antimalarial resistance on the genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the DRC

R Verity, O Aydemir, NF Brazeau, OJ Watson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) harbors 11% of global malaria
cases, yet little is known about the spatial and genetic structure of the parasite population in …

Applying next-generation sequencing to track falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

SK Tessema, J Raman, CW Duffy, DS Ishengoma… - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are increasingly being used to address a
diverse range of biological and epidemiological questions. The current understanding of …