World Malaria Day will be marked on 25 April 2015. The World Health Organization's global campaign theme is "Invest in the future. Defeat malaria." World Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria control and elimination. It is also an opportunity for new donors to join the global malaria fight, and for research and … [Read more...]
Malaria could be diagnosed through breath test, Australian scientists find | Society | The Guardian
Diagnosing malaria could soon be as simple as taking a breath test. Australian scientists have made the groundbreaking discovery that malaria-infected patients have higher levels of certain chemicals in their breath. … [Read more...]
Challenges in Modelling Infectious DIsease Dynamics
Malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis (TB) collectively account for several million deaths each year, with all three ranking among the top ten killers in low-income countries. Despite being caused by very different organisms, malaria, HIV, and TB present a suite of challenges for mathematical modellers that are particularly pronounced in these infections, but represent general problems in infectious … [Read more...]
Landscape Ecology and Epidemiology of Malaria Associated with Rubber Plantations in Thailand: Integrated Approaches to Malaria Ecotoping
The agricultural land use changes that are human-induced changes in agroforestry ecosystems and in physical environmental conditions contribute substantially to the potential risks for malaria transmission in receptive areas. Due to the pattern and extent of land use change, the risks or negatively ecosystemic outcomes are the results of the dynamics of malaria transmission, the susceptibility of … [Read more...]
UNICEF Commemorates World Malaria Day: Scaling up Interventions Against Malaria During Pregnancy
Michigan State University to Develop Mobile App for Malaria Diagnosis
Researchers at the Michigan State University College of Engineering are getting closer to phoning home a rapid-response diagnostic test for malaria. Peter Lillehoj, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is heading a team of researchers that will use a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the technology to diagnose and monitor cerebral malaria using … [Read more...]
A molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Artemisinins are the cornerstone of anti-malarial drugs. Emergence and spread of resistance to them raises risk of wiping out recent gains achieved in reducing worldwide malaria burden and threatens future malaria control and elimination on a global level. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed parasite genetic loci associated with artemisinin resistance. However, there is no … [Read more...]
LED Bulbs Could Lower Malaria Risk
LED bulbs are really having a moment. Not only are they taking the place of more energy-hogging light bulbs every where you look, but they're also at the core of an urban farming revolution and, now, they could help prevent the spread of deadly diseases like malaria. Working with scientists from the Philips lighting group in Holland, University of California researchers discovered that LED … [Read more...]
Genetic Investigation of Tricarboxylic Acid Metabolism during the Plasmodium falciparum Life Cycle
New antimalarial drugs are urgently needed to control drug-resistant forms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Mitochondrial electron transport is the target of both existing and new antimalarials. Herein, we describe 11 genetic knockout (KO) lines that delete six of the eight mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes. Although all TCA KOs grew normally in asexual blood … [Read more...]
A World Without Malaria: New President’s Malaria Initiative Strategy Launched
By Deborah L. Birx, M.D., and Rear Admiral (RET.) R. Tim Ziemer The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the scale-up of malaria control efforts between 2001 and 2013 resulted in some 4.3 million fewer malaria deaths than would otherwise have occurred. The impressive results are due in large part to programs like the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) that are focused on … [Read more...]