News tagged with malaria endemic
Malaria on the increase in the UK
Jul 04, 2008 |
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A huge rise in the numbers of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, combined with a failure to use prevention measures, has significantly increased cases of imported falciparum malaria in the UK over the past ...
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Lab will pay to infect people with malaria
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Scientists in Seattle plan to pay people to catch malaria in order to test the safety and efficacy of new vaccines.
Model identifies targets for eradication of malaria
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal, have shown that Malaria eradication in Africa is sustainable, and any re-emergence of malaria in industrialized nations is highly unlikely. Working with ...
Researchers identify new way the malaria parasite and red blood cells interact
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University Life Sciences researchers have discovered a new mechanism the malaria parasite uses to enter human red blood cells, which could lead to the development of a vaccine cocktail to fight the mosquito-borne ...
The travel industry should inform travelers about malaria, say doctors
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Tour operators and airlines are wasting an ideal opportunity to warn travellers about the risk of contracting malaria in specific countries, say infectious disease experts on BMJ.com today.
New tool promises more accurate antimalarial drug dosing
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Scientists at LSTM have developed a tool to support the development of appropriate age-based dosing regimens for malaria drugs. Weight-based dosing is challenging in many malaria endemic countries because access to formal ...
Supplementary approach to malaria
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Could a simple vitamin A and zinc supplement help protect young children from malaria? A randomized double blind trial reported in the open access publication, Nutrition Journal, would suggest the answer is yes.
Early promising results in malaria vaccine trial in Mali
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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A small clinical trial conducted by an international team of researchers in Mali has found that a candidate malaria vaccine was safe and elicited strong immune responses in the 40 Malian adults who received it.
Genome sequences of 2 malaria parasites defined
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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Professor Alan Cowman, Professor Brendan Crabb, Dr Paul Gilson and Dr Toby Sargeant are WEHI members of international research teams that have made significant discoveries about two deadly malaria parasites, Plasmodium kn ...
Malaria makes relapsing fever more serious
May 08, 2009 |
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Malaria and the Borrelia infection relapsing fever are diseases with similar symptoms that can occur simultaneously. In such cases, the malaria is moderated while the relapsing fever becomes more serious. This is shown in ...
Swiss researchers develop antibody test
Mar 03, 2008 |
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ETH Zurich professor Peter Seeberger has been working on a sugar-based malaria vaccine for years. The new test takes him one important step closer to his goal. The malaria pathogen plasmodium falciparum carries poisonous ...
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