The silent threat: asymptomatic parasitemia and malaria transmission

KA Lindblade, L Steinhardt, A Samuels… - Expert review of anti …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Scale-up of malaria control interventions has resulted in a substantial decline in global
malaria morbidity and mortality. Despite this achievement, there is evidence that current …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria rapid diagnostic tests in elimination settings—can they find the last parasite?

ML McMorrow, M Aidoo, SP Kachur - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2011 - Elsevier
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria have improved the availability of parasite-based
diagnosis throughout the malaria-endemic world. Accurate malaria diagnosis is essential for …

Factors determining the occurrence of submicroscopic malaria infections and their relevance for control

LC Okell, T Bousema, JT Griffin, AL Ouédraogo… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Malaria parasite prevalence in endemic populations is an essential indicator for monitoring
the progress of malaria control, and has traditionally been assessed by microscopy …

Hitting hotspots: spatial targeting of malaria for control and elimination

T Bousema, JT Griffin, RW Sauerwein, DL Smith… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
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Targeting asymptomatic malaria infections: active surveillance in control and elimination

HJW Sturrock, MS Hsiang, JM Cohen, DL Smith… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Hugh Sturrock and colleagues discuss the role of active case detection in low malaria
transmission settings. They argue that the evidence for its effectiveness is sparse and that …

Comparison of diagnostics for the detection of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections to inform control and elimination strategies

L Wu, LL van den Hoogen, H Slater, PGT Walker… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The global burden of malaria has been substantially reduced over the past two decades.
Future efforts to reduce malaria further will require moving beyond the treatment of clinical …

Communicating and monitoring surveillance and response activities for malaria elimination: China's “1-3-7” strategy

J Cao, HJW Sturrock, C Cotter, S Zhou, H Zhou… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
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Transmission-blocking vaccines: harnessing herd immunity for malaria elimination

PE Duffy - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) prevent community spread of malaria by
targeting mosquito sexual stage parasites, a life-cycle bottleneck, and will be used in …

Malaria risk factor assessment using active and passive surveillance data from Aceh Besar, Indonesia, a low endemic, malaria elimination setting with Plasmodium …

H Herdiana, C Cotter, FN Coutrier, I Zarlinda… - Malaria journal, 2016 - Springer
Background As malaria transmission declines, it becomes more geographically focused and
more likely due to asymptomatic and non-falciparum infections. To inform malaria …

Prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors among asymptomatic migrant laborers in West Armachiho District, Northwest Ethiopia

Y Aschale, A Mengist, A Bitew, B Kassie… - Research and Reports …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background Malaria is a febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites of the genus
Plasmodium. It is prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries and becomes a challenge to …