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We envision a world in which there is free and unrestricted access to information on malaria, independent of geographical locality or socio-economic status. No matter who you are, where you are, or what you do, access to information is the key to knowledge.
 
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Open Access | Geographic medicine: Field evaluation of the bio-efficacy of three pyrethroid based coils against wild populations of anthropophilic mosquitoes in Northern Tanzania

Author(s): 
Shandala Msangi, Beda J Mwang'onde, Aneth M Mahande, Eliningaya J Kweka
Reference: 
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases , Volume 2 : 2 Page : 116-120, 2010
Contact email: 
pat.kweka@gmail.com

This study aims to assess the feeding inhibition and repellency effect of three brands of mosquito coils in experimental huts (East African design).

Priority Paper Evaluation: How do malaria parasites activate dendritic cells?

Author(s): 
Tracey J Lamb, Michael P Schenk, Stephen M Todryk
Reference: 
Future Microbiology August 2010, Vol. 5, No. 8, Pages 1167-1171

The authors suggest that parasite DNA complexed with protein is the main trigger for activation of DCs in malaria-infected red blood cells.

Open Access | Malaria: what can apes teach humans?

Author(s): 
J Cox-Singh
Reference: 
Future Microbiology August 2010, Vol. 5, No. 8, Pages 1157-1160
Contact email: 
jcox@sgul.ac.uk

Human malaria is caused by four human-host restricted or adapted species of the genus Plasmodium, listed here in their order of risk for causing severe disease Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae – or so we thought.

Open Access | Short Report: Malaria among antenatal clients attending primary health care facilities in Kano state, Nigeria

Author(s): 
AU Gajida, Z Iliyasu, AI Zoakah
Reference: 
Annals of African Medicine, Volume : 9 Issue : 3 2010 Page : 188-193

Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) should be provided especially among primigravid, secondigravid and younger mothers at PHC centres.

Letters: Local Programs Take a Bite out of Malaria

Author(s): 
Clive J. Shiff and Phil Thuma
Reference: 
Science 20 August 2010 Vol. 329. no. 5994, p. 900

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Open Access | Reduction in the proportion of fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Africa: a systematic review

Author(s): 
D'Acremont V, Lengeler C, Genton B
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:240 (22 August 2010)
Contact email: 
valerie.dacremont@unibas.ch

There was a considerable reduction of the proportion of malaria among fevers over time in Africa. This decline provides evidence for the policy change from presumptive anti-malarial treatment of all children with fever to laboratory diagnosis and treatment upon result.

Open Access | Dispatch: Co-infections with Plasmodium knowlesi and Other Malaria Parasites, Myanmar

Author(s): 
Ning Jiang,1 Qiaocheng Chang,1 Xiaodong Sun,1 Huijun Lu, Jigang Yin, Zaixing Zhang, Mats Wahlgren, and Qijun Chen
Reference: 
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 16, Number 9–September 2010
Contact email: 
qijun.chen@ki.se

To determine the frequency of co-infections with Plasmodium species in southern Myanmar, we investigated the prevalence of P. knowlesi.

Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase from Plasmodium falciparum is anaerobic and is localized to the mitochondrion

Author(s): 
Viswanathan Arun Nagaraj, Rajavel Arumugam, Dasari Prasad, Pundi N. Rangarajan, Govindarajan Padmanaban
Reference: 
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 174, Issue 1, November 2010, Pages 44-52
Contact email: 
geepee@biochem.iisc.ernet.in

In the present study, PfPPO has been cloned, expressed and shown to be localized to the mitochondrion by immunofluorescence microscopy.

Short Communication: Localization of apical sushi protein in Plasmodium falciparum merozoites

Author(s): 
Anand Srivastava, Shailja Singh, Shikha Dhawan, M. Mahmood Alam, Asif Mohmmed, Chetan E. Chitnis
Reference: 
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 174, Issue 1, November 2010, Pages 66-69
Contact email: 
cchitnis@icgeb.res.in

In the present study, we have used indirect immunofluorescence assays and immunoelectron microscopy to demonstrate that PfASP is localized in the neck of rhoptries and not in micronemes as previously described.

Review: The ABCs of multidrug resistance in malaria

Author(s): 
Jan B. Koenderink, Reginald A. Kavishe, Sanna R. Rijpma, Frans G.M. Russel
Reference: 
Trends in Parasitology, Volume 26, Issue 9, September 2010, Pages 440-446

Here, we give an overview of the PlasmodiumABC family members with reference to their possible role in multidrug resistance.

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