Infant malaria infections can be cut by up to 30% when anti-malarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12-month period…
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Special “scaffold” proteins are responsible for the malaria parasite’s transformation into a banana shape before sexual reproduction…
More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010 – twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive…
Mosquito-borne diseases remain one of the greatest global threats to human health. Genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes hold great potential to reduce the burden of disease but as research moves from the…
The great burden of death and disease caused by the malaria parasite often goes unnoticed in the developed world. But it’s the leading cause of death in children under five years old in many sub-Sahara…
New research has found that the number of malaria cases in the East African highlands has dropped dramatically, despite a…
World-first field trials of a new technique to stop mosquitoes passing the dangerous and painful dengue virus onto humans have been declared a success, with plans afoot to roll out the method in dengue-plagued…
Female mosquitoes cannot tell if a male she has mated with is fertile or “spermless” and unable to fertilise her eggs. The…
More than 200 million people are infected annually with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, and around 800,000 people die every year of the mosquito-borne disease, most of them children. As reported…
Malaria parasites are able to adapt their growth rate to render anti-malarial drugs useless, according to new research by Australian scientists. More than 200 million people are infected annually with…
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute
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Project Manager, Cambridge Africa, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Public Health Scientist, MidMichigan Health, University of Michigan
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Director and CEO, Burnet Institute
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Co-Director, Institute of Infection, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology, Imperial College London
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Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology