The need to discover, design and develop novel anti-malaria agent that are capable of
treating and providing prophylaxis cover for malaria infections has become paramount …

Background The gold standard for diagnosing Plasmodium falciparum infection is
microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained peripheral blood smears. The effectiveness of …

India has made tremendous progress in reducing malaria mortality and morbidity in the last
decade. Mizoram State in North-East India is one of the few malaria-endemic regions where …

Background Malaria prevalence in the highlands of Northern Tanzania is currently below
1% making this an elimination prone setting. As climate changes may facilitate increasing …

Background The level of human exposure to arbovirus vectors, the Aedes mosquitoes, is
mainly assessed by entomological methods which are labour intensive, difficult to sustain at …

Global malaria epidemiology has changed in the last decade with a substantial increase in
cases and deaths being recorded. Tanzania accounts for about 4% of all cases and deaths …

Malaria rapid diagnosis test (RDT) is crucial for managing the disease, and the effectiveness
of detection depends on parameters such as sensitivity and specificity of the RDT. Several …

Acute Q fever diagnosis via paired serology is problematic because it requires follow-up for
convalescent sample collection; as such, it cannot provide a diagnosis to inform a treatment …

Methods Data source and mapping. A malaria case is a person in whom the presence of
malaria parasite in the blood has been confirmed by diagnostic tests. Malaria surveillance is …

Background: People living in malaria endemic areas are at risk of suffering from the
recurrent malaria episodes. The recurrent episode of malaria can be determined by various …