Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Severe malaria

NJ White - Malaria journal, 2022 - Springer
Severe malaria is a medical emergency. It is a major cause of preventable childhood death
in tropical countries. Severe malaria justifies considerable global investment in malaria …

Microneedle-based skin patch for blood-free rapid diagnostic testing

X Jiang, PB Lillehoj - Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2020 - nature.com
Rapid diagnostic tests are one of the most commonly used tests to detect and screen for
infectious diseases in the developing world. While these tests are simple, inexpensive, and …

[HTML][HTML] HRP2: transforming malaria diagnosis, but with caveats

KE Poti, DJ Sullivan, AM Dondorp, CJ Woodrow - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
The major growth in point-of-care malaria diagnosis over the past decade has been based
on immunochromatographic malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), which generally detect …

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests: challenges and prospects

JC Mouatcho, JPD Goldring - Journal of medical …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
In the last decade, there has been an upsurge of interest in developing malaria rapid
diagnostic test (RDT) kits for the detection of Plasmodium species. Three antigens …

Performance of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin to distinguish viral from bacterial and malarial causes of fever in Southeast Asia

Y Lubell, SD Blacksell, S Dunachie… - BMC infectious …, 2015 - Springer
Background Poor targeting of antimicrobial drugs contributes to the millions of deaths each
year from malaria, pneumonia, and other tropical infectious diseases. While malaria rapid …

Parasite burden and severity of malaria in Tanzanian children

BP Gonçalves, CY Huang, R Morrison… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is a major cause of death in children.
The contribution of the parasite burden to the pathogenesis of severe malaria has been …

Integrated pathogen load and dual transcriptome analysis of systemic host-pathogen interactions in severe malaria

HJ Lee, A Georgiadou, M Walther… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The pathogenesis of infectious diseases depends on the interaction of host and pathogen. In
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, host and parasite processes can be assessed by dual RNA …

When do co-infections matter?

AJ McArdle, A Turkova… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
When do co-infections matter? : Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases When do co-infections
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Recent advances in cellulose-based membranes for their sensing applications

J Fan, S Zhang, F Li, Y Yang, M Du - Cellulose, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, sensing applications have played a very important role in various fields. As a
novel natural material, cellulose-based membranes with many merits can be served as all …