Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in Papua New Guinean infants exposed to Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax: a randomized controlled trial
March 27, 2012
This large, randomised placebo-controlled trial was the first to demonstrate the efficacy of IPTi for the prevention of malaria in children outside Africa and equally the first to prove its efficacy against P. vivax malaria.
Modelling the dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 in human malaria to better understand malaria rapid diagnostic test performance
March 19, 2012
Background Effective diagnosis of malaria is a major component of case management. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) based on Plasmodium falciparumhistidine-rich protein…