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Last week at MalariaWorld...5 jobs!, an invitation, and blogs!

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has no less than 5 exciting job openings for malariologists advertised on MalariaWorld this week. Vector control specialists, vector biologists, those interested in malaria elimination, and in malaria epidemiology will find these interesting. Read more here and here.

Also this week an invitation for all to attend a symposium titled 'Malaria, maternal and infant health; perspectives from Africa and Asia', with a great line-up of well-known speakers. To be held at the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Amsterdam, on 19 June. Read more here.

An array of themes in a series of blogs. First, a blog on 'How not to control malaria' by Dr. Sawa from Kenya. Read it here. Then an announcement from the Global Health Group at UCSF about eleven country briefings for the Asia-Pacific region, read more here. And finally an editorial about this week's announcement from WHO regarding the problems faced with insecticide resistance. Read it here.

Enjoy this week's MalariaWorld - the MW team.

NOT Open Access | Clotrimazole nanoemulsion for malaria chemotherapy. Part I: Preformulation studies, formulation design and physicochemical evaluation

Author(s): 
Vivek Borhade, Sulabha Pathak, Shobhona Sharma, Vandana Patravale
Reference: 
International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Volume 431, Issues 1–2, 15 July 2012, Pages 138-148
Contact email: 
vbp_muict@yahoo.co.in

MalariaWorldPreformulation studies were preformed to evaluate drug-excipient compatibility, solution state pH stability and pH solubility profile.

NOT Open Access | Clotrimazole nanoemulsion for malaria chemotherapy. Part II: Stability assessment, in vivo pharmacodynamic evaluations and toxicological studies

Author(s): 
Vivek Borhade, Sulabha Pathak, Shobhona Sharma, Vandana Patravale
Reference: 
International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Volume 431, Issues 1–2, 15 July 2012, Pages 149-160
Contact email: 
vivekborhade@gmail.com

MalariaWorldThe aim of present investigation was to evaluate the potential of clotrimazole as antimalarial drug. Due to poor aqueous solubility and high lipophilicity, it was previously formulated in a nanoemulsion based system.

Abiotic and biotic factors associated with the presence of Anopheles arabiensis immatures and their abundance in naturally occurring and manmade aquatic habitats

Author(s): 
Gouagna LC, Rakotondranary M, Boyer S, Lempérière G, Dehecq J, Fontenille D
Reference: 
Parasites & Vectors 2012, 5:96 (19 May 2012)
Contact email: 
louis-clement.gouagna@ird.fr

MalariaWorldIn an initial preliminary survey, a representative sample of aquatic habitats that would be amenable to an intensive long-term study were selected and divided into positive and negative sites based on the presence or absence of Anopheles arabiensis larvae.

NOT Open Access | Antimalarial activities of medicinal plants traditionally used in the villages of Dharmapuri regions of South India

Author(s): 
Chinnaperumal Kamaraj, Naveen Kumar Kaushik, Dinkar Sahal, et al.
Reference: 
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 141, Issue 3, 14 June 2012, Pages 796-802
Contact email: 
abdulrahuman6@hotmail.com

MalariaWorldThese results provide validation for the traditional usage of some medicinal plants against malaria in Dharmapuri region, Tamil Nadu, India.

NOT Open Access | Ethnopharmacology in overdrive: The remarkable anti-HIV activity of Artemisia annua

Author(s): 
Andrea Lubbe, Isabell Seibert, Thomas Klimkait, Frank van der Kooy
Reference: 
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 141, Issue 3, 14 June 2012, Pages 854-859
Contact email: 
a.lubbe@chem.leidenuniv.nl

MalariaWorldThis study provides the first in vitro evidence of anti-HIV activity of the Artemisia annua tea infusion. We also report for the first time on the anti-HIV activity of Artemisia afra although this was not an objective of this study.

Event: Symposium Malaria, maternal and infant health

Organisation: AIGHD & AMC

Date: June 19th, 2012

Time: 12.30-17.00 hrs

Location: Academic Medical Center (AMC) Lecture Hall 5,    Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam

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Job: Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Epidemiology

Organisation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Location: Blantyre, Malawi

Closing Date: 8th June 2012, 12.00pm BST 

Reference: 737

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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Job: Inspiring scientists in infectious tropical diseases

 

Organisation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Closing Date: 25 May 2012, 12.00pm (BST)

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Average: 5 (1 vote)

NOT Open Access | A critical view on antimalarial endoperoxide QSAR studies

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Author(s): 
Teixeira RR, Carneiro JW, Araujo MT, Taranto AG.
Reference: 
Mini Rev Med Chem. 2012 Jun 1;12(6):562-72.
Contact email: 
robsonr.teixeira@ufv.br

MalariaWorldThis work presents a critical view on some QSAR models, and shows that, due to lack of a rigorous selection of the descriptors entering the models, most of them are unable to accurately indicate the molecular cause of biological activity. Some reasons for the weakness of the published models are discussed.

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