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2012 Country Roadmaps previous week updates [RBM] — (English)
Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, DRC, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Soudan...
Eighth PSM Working Group Meeting materials [RBM PSMWG] — (English)
Presentations, List of Participants etc,...
Eighth Meeting of the RBM Malaria Advocacy Working Group materials [MAWG] — (English)
Meeting report...
SARN Calendar of Events for 2012 [RBM SARN] — (English)
In the implementation of the SARN Joint Work Plan...
Global Fund welcomes $340 million contribution by Japan [Global Fund] — (English)
Highest Contribution Ever Made by Japan, Leading Supporter of the Global Fund...
DFID Health Research Competition for the Development of New Technologies to Impact on Diseases of Poverty [DFID] — (English)
DFID priority geographic areas are Africa and resource poor areas in Asia. Deadline for applications: 2 pm UK time, 23 April 2012...
PSMWG Updated Membership List [PSMWG] — (English)
Includes Core member organizations and Observer organizations as of March 2012...
RBM: Technical Officer [RBM] — (English)
Application deadline: 23 March 2012...
Call for applications: Consultant on Malaria Elimination Operational Research [WHO Global Malaria Programme] — (English)
Application deadline: 31 March 2012...
WWARN: Latin America Liaison Scientist based in São Paulo, Brazil [WWARN] — (English)
Application deadline: 15 April 2012...
WWARN: Antimalarial Pharmacologist / Pharmacoepidemiologist based at University of Cape Town WWARN] — (English)
Application deadline: 2 April 2012...
WWARN: Software Engineer [WWARN] — (English)
Application deadline: 21 March 2012...
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From methylene blue to chloroquine: a brief review of the development of an antimalarial therapy [Parasitology Research DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-2886-x] — (English)
In this article, we trace the origins of an antimalarial therapy from the discovery of the nature of the malarial parasite through the development of chloroquine...
Uncommon Manifestation of a Mixed-Species Malaria Infection: Cryptic Falciparum Malaria in a Traveler With Successfully Treated Tertian Malaria [Journal of Travel Medicine Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 133–135, March/April 2012] — (English)
We report a case of falciparum malaria in a traveler 9 days after successful treatment of ovale malaria...
Travel and Tropical Medicine Practice Among Infectious Disease Practitioners [Journal of Travel Medicine Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 92–95, March/April 2012] — (English)
A majority of respondents (69%) provided both pre-travel counseling and post-travel evaluations, with significant variation in the numbers of such consultations. A majority of all respondents (61%) reported inadequate training in travel medicine during their fellowship years. However, a majority of recent graduates (55%) reported adequate preparation. Diagnoses of malaria, traveler's diarrhea, and typhoid fever were reported by the most respondents (84, 71, and 53%, respectively)...
Transcriptional variation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum [Genome Res. 13, 2012, doi: 10.1101/gr.129692.111] — (English)
Here we provide a comprehensive characterization of transcriptional variation in the most lethal malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, based on highly accurate transcriptional analysis of isogenic parasite lines grown under homogeneous conditions...
Elimination Therapy for the Endemic Malarias [Curr Infect Dis Rep DOI 10.1007/s11908-012-0250-] — (English)
Developing therapeutic strategies that address all species and stages independently of diagnostic evidence may substantially improve the effectiveness of the control and elimination of endemic malaria...
Predicting the Clinical Outcome of Severe Falciparum Malaria in African Children: Findings From a Large Randomized Trial [Clin Infect Dis. (2012) doi: 10.1093/cid/cis034 ] — (English)
Data from the largest randomized, controlled trial for the treatment of children hospitalized with severe malaria were used to identify such predictors of a poor outcome from severe malaria...
Elimination of malaria in country Georgia [Acta Tropica] — (English)
By 1970 Georgia managed to reach complete and sustained elimination of the disease as a result of comprehensive anti-malaria measures undertaken in the country. However from the mid-1990s, economic collapse following disintegration of Soviet Union causing breakdown of important public health networks including anti-malaria preventive and control infrastructure resulted in gradual increase of malaria cases in the country with a peak of 437 and 474 cases in 2001 and 2002, respectively...
Detection, Characterization, and Screening of Heme-Binding Molecules by Mass Spectrometry for Malaria Drug Discovery [Anal. Chem., DOI: 10.1021/ac300065t] — (English)
Drug screening for antimalarials uses heme biocrystallization inhibition methods as an alternative to parasite cultures, but they involve complex processes and cannot detect artemisinin-like molecules...
Mosquirix (RTS,S): A Novel Vaccine for the Prevention of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria [Ann Pharmacother March 2012 vol. 46 no. 3 384-393 ] — (English)
RTS,S has demonstrated efficacy and safety in Phase 1, 2, and 3 trials, and has the potential to decrease morbidity and mortality from malaria worldwide...
Acute pancreatitis in a patient with vivax malaria [JOP. J Pancreas (Online) 2012 Mar 10; 13(2):215-216] — (English)
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