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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gianni Gilioli, Francesco Defilippo, Anna Simonetto, Alessandro Heinzl, Manlio Migliorati, Mattia Calzolari, Sabrina Canziani, Davide Lelli, Antonio Lavazza
BACKGROUND: In Italy, malaria was endemic until the 1970s, when it was declared eradicated by WHO. Nowadays, with the persistence of competent mosquito populations, the effect of climate change, and increased possibility of importing malaria parasites from endemic counties due to growing migration, a malaria resurgence in Italy has become more likely. Hence, enhancing the understanding of the current distribution of the Anopheles maculipennis complex and the factors that influence the presence of this malaria vector is crucial, especially in Northern Italy, characterised by a high density of both human population and livestock...
March 6, 2024: Parasites & Vectors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Klauss Kleydmann Sabino Garcia, Seyi Soremekun, Amanda Amaral Abrahão, Paola Barbosa Marchesini, Chris Drakeley, Walter Massa Ramalho, André M Siqueira
In Brazil, 99% of malaria cases occur in the Amazon region, mainly caused by Plasmodium vivax (~83%) and Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) species. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, Brazil aims to eliminate autochthonous malaria by 2035. This study aims to analyse epidemiological patterns of malaria in Brazil to discuss if Brazil is on track to meet malaria control targets. A time-series study was conducted analysing autochthonous malaria new infections notifications in the Brazilian Amazon region from 2011 until June 2023...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elaine Costa, Daniele Rocha, Josiane Iole França Lopes, Elisabete Andrade, Pedro Cardoso, Marisa Ribeiro, Marcela Fontana-Maurell, Amanda Roberta Revoredo Vicentino, Alexandre Rodrigues Calazans, Monica Barcellos Arruda, Camila de Amorim Mesquita, Antonio Gomes Pinto Ferreira, Luiz Amorim Filho, Patrícia Alvarez
BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) is a public health problem in endemic and nonendemic areas. The Brazilian Ministry of Health (MH) requested the development of a nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) for the detection of Plasmodium spp. in public blood centers to increase blood safety. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: The new Brazilian NAT kit named NAT PLUS HIV/HBV/HCV/Malaria Bio-Manguinhos was first implemented in HEMORIO, a public blood center in the city of Rio de Janeiro...
January 23, 2024: Transfusion
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REVIEW
Adriana Calderaro, Giovanna Piccolo, Carlo Chezzi
Even if malaria is rare in Europe, it is a medical emergency and programs for its control should ensure both an early diagnosis and a prompt treatment within 24-48 h from the onset of the symptoms. The increasing number of imported malaria cases as well as the risk of the reintroduction of autochthonous cases encouraged laboratories in non-endemic countries to adopt diagnostic methods/algorithms. Microscopy remains the gold standard, but with limitations. Rapid diagnostic tests have greatly expanded the ability to diagnose malaria for rapid results due to simplicity and low cost, but they lack sensitivity and specificity...
January 5, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marina Stein, Mía E Martin, Patricia G Ramírez, Eduardo G Etchepare, Griselda I Oria, Gustavo C Rossi, Jorge Kuruc, Elizabet L Estallo
Malaria is the most important parasitic disease worldwide. In 2019, more than 679,441 cases of malaria were reported in the American region. During this study, Argentina was in malaria pre-elimination autochthonous transmission phase with the aim of being declared as malaria-free country. The aim of this work was to assess the influence of remote sensing spectral indices (NDVI, NDWI) and climatic variables (temperature, relative humidity and precipitation) on the distribution and abundance of Anopheles mosquitoes, in four localities with different degrees of anthropogenic disturbance and with previous malaria cases records located , in a historical malarious area in northeastern of Argentina...
2024: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Outammassine Abdelkrim, Zouhair Said, Loqman Souad
BACKGROUND: The potential reappearance and/or expansion of vector-borne diseases is one of the terrifying issues awaiting humanity in the context of climate change. The presence of competent Anopheles vectors, as well as suitable environmental circumstances, may result in the reemergence of autochthonous Malaria, after years of absence. In Morocco, international travel and migration movements from Malaria-endemic areas have recently increased the number of imported cases, raising awareness of Malaria's possible reintroduction...
December 21, 2023: Pest Management Science
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December 1, 2023: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Humphrey R Mkali, Shabbir M Lalji, Abdul-Wahid Al-Mafazy, Joseph J Joseph, Osia S Mwaipape, Abdullah S Ali, Faiza B Abbas, Mohamed H Ali, Wahida S Hassan, Erik J Reaves, Chonge Kitojo, Naomi Serbantez, Bilali I Kabula, Ssanyu S Nyinondi, Mike McKay, Gordon Cressman, Jeremiah M Ngondi, Richard Reithinger
Testing and treating asymptomatic populations have the potential to reduce the population's parasite reservoir and reduce malaria transmission. Zanzibar's malaria case notification (MCN) platform collects detailed sociodemographic and epidemiological data from all confirmed malaria cases to inform programmatic decision-making. We describe the design and operationalization process of the platform and other malaria surveillance resources that are enabling Zanzibar's progress toward malaria elimination.The MCN platform consists of an interactive short message service (SMS) system for case notification, a software application for Android mobile devices, a visual question set and workflow manager, a back-end database server, and a web browser-based application for data analytics, configuration, and management...
October 30, 2023: Global Health, Science and Practice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hüseyin Gülen, Ayşe Türedi Yıldırım, İbrahim Çavuş, Hülya Türkmen, Ahmet Özbilgin
Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. There are five species of Plasmodium species that can infect humans. Of these species, especially P.falciparum and P.vivax pose the greatest threat to human health. In the 2014 report of the World Health Organization, it was reported that there were no locally acquired cases of malaria in 16 countries including Türkiye. Malaria cases originating from outside the country and imported due to migration, travel and working abroad are reported as import cases...
October 2023: Mikrobiyoloji Bülteni
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Monique Duwell, Timothy DeVita, David Torpey, Jenny Chen, Robert A Myers, Kimberly Mace, Alison D Ridpath, Wycliffe Odongo, Brian H Raphael, Audrey Lenhart, Jon Eric Tongren, Stephen Stanley, David Blythe
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
October 13, 2023: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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REVIEW
Tatjana Vilibic-Cavlek, Natasa Janev-Holcer, Maja Bogdanic, Thomas Ferenc, Mateja Vujica Ferenc, Stjepan Krcmar, Vladimir Savic, Vladimir Stevanovic, Maja Ilic, Ljubo Barbic
Different vector-borne pathogens are present or have (re-)emerged in Croatia. Flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV), West Nile (WNV), and Usutu (USUV) are widely distributed in continental regions, while Toscana virus (TOSV) and sandfly fever viruses are detected at the Croatian littoral. Recently, sporadic clinical cases of Tahyna orthobunyavirus (TAHV) and Bhanja bandavirus infection and seropositive individuals have been reported in continental Croatia. Acute infections and serologic evidence of WNV, TBEV, USUV, and TAHV were also confirmed in sentinel animals and vectors...
September 1, 2023: Life
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Paola Rodari, Francesca Tamarozzi, Veronica Andrea Fittipaldo, Dora Buonfrate, Federico Gobbi
BACKGROUND: Blackwater fever (BWF) is a severe syndrome occurring in patients with malaria upon antimalarial treatment, characterized by massive intravascular haemolysis and haemoglobinuria. BWF is a neglected condition and management recommendations are unavailable. OBJECTIVES: We performed a scoping review to appraise available data on clinical picture, treatment and physiopathology of BWF, which could guide rationally its clinical management. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, and the reference list of relevant publications, were searched...
September 20, 2023: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dawn Blackburn, Michael Drennon, Kelly Broussard, Andrea M Morrison, Danielle Stanek, Elizabeth Sarney, Christina Ferracci, Steve Huard, Wade Brennan, John Eaton, Sara Nealeigh, Natalie Barber, Rebecca A Zimler, Jeremy N Adams, Carina Blackmore, Manuel Gordillo, Robert Mercado, Harold Vore, Kelly Scanlan, Ian Motie, Leslie Stanfield, Ahmed Farooq, Kimberly Widel, Kelly Tomson, Nancy Kerr, John Nasir, Marshall Cone, Connor Rice, Thomas Larkin, Edwin Hernandez, Jennifer Bencie, Christopher R Lesser, Max Dersch, Samantha Ramirez-Lachmann, Marah Clark, Susan Rollo, Amira Bashadi, Ronald Tyler, Bethany Bolling, Brent Moore, Brendan Sullivan, Eric Fonken, Raquel Castillo, Yaziri Gonzalez, Gustavo Olivares, Kimberly E Mace, Dean Sayre, Audrey Lenhart, Alice Sutcliffe, Ellen Dotson, Claudia Corredor, Emma Rogers, Brian H Raphael, Sarah G H Sapp, Yvonne Qvarnstrom, Alison D Ridpath, Peter D McElroy
Eight cases of locally acquired, mosquito-transmitted (i.e., autochthonous) Plasmodium vivax malaria, which has not been reported in the United States since 2003, were reported to CDC from state health departments in Florida and Texas during May 18-July 17, 2023. As of August 4, 2023, case surveillance, mosquito surveillance and control activities, and public outreach and education activities continue in both states. U.S. clinicians need to consider a malaria diagnosis in patients with unexplained fever, especially in areas where autochthonous malaria has been recently reported, although the risk for autochthonous malaria in the United States remains very low...
September 8, 2023: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Said K Al Mukhaini, Osama A Mohammed, Sue Gerbers, Salah T Al Awaidy
OBJECTIVES: Despite a significant reduction in the global case incidence and mortality of malaria in the past 20 years, malaria continues to wreak havoc on people's health across the globe. Oman is a malaria-free country, meeting the World Health Organization's (WHO) criteria, having no indigenous malaria case documented since 2010, and maintaining that status for three consecutive years. Oman has a national strategy for prevention of re-establishment of malaria and to maintain their malaria-free status...
May 2023: Oman Medical Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jean-François Lepère, Louis Collet, Ambdoul-Bar Idaroussi, Bruno Pradines
Mayotte is a French overseas department and one of the 4 islands of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean, located between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa. Malaria, mainly by Plasmodium falciparum , is endemic to the archipelago and remained a major public health problem until recent years. To control and then eliminate the disease, major strategies have been established in Mayotte since 2001. Preventive measures, diagnostic testing, treatment and disease surveillance were introduced or improved...
March 31, 2023: Med Trop Sante Int
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francisco Solis-Santoyo, Cuauhtémoc Villarreal-Treviño, Alma D López-Solis, Lilia González-Cerón, José Cruz Rodríguez-Ramos, Farah Z Vera-Maloof, Rogelio Danis-Lozano, Rosa Patricia Penilla-Navarro
Chiapas State comprises the largest malaria foci from Mexico, and 57% of the autochthonous cases in 2021, all with Plasmodium vivax infections, were reported in this State. Southern Chiapas is at constant risk of cases imported due to migratory human flow. Since chemical control of vector mosquitoes is the main entomological action implemented for the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases, this work aimed to investigate the susceptibility of Anopheles albimanus to insecticides. To this end, mosquitoes were collected in cattle in two villages in southern Chiapas in July-August 2022...
February 27, 2023: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hidayat Trimarsanto, Roberto Amato, Richard D Pearson, Edwin Sutanto, Rintis Noviyanti, Leily Trianty, Jutta Marfurt, Zuleima Pava, Diego F Echeverry, Tatiana M Lopera-Mesa, Lidia M Montenegro, Alberto Tobón-Castaño, Matthew J Grigg, Bridget Barber, Timothy William, Nicholas M Anstey, Sisay Getachew, Beyene Petros, Abraham Aseffa, Ashenafi Assefa, Awab G Rahim, Nguyen H Chau, Tran T Hien, Mohammad S Alam, Wasif A Khan, Benedikt Ley, Kamala Thriemer, Sonam Wangchuck, Yaghoob Hamedi, Ishag Adam, Yaobao Liu, Qi Gao, Kanlaya Sriprawat, Marcelo U Ferreira, Moses Laman, Alyssa Barry, Ivo Mueller, Marcus V G Lacerda, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Srivicha Krudsood, Chanthap Lon, Rezika Mohammed, Daniel Yilma, Dhelio B Pereira, Fe E J Espino, Cindy S Chu, Iván D Vélez, Chayadol Namaik-Larp, Maria F Villegas, Justin A Green, Gavin Koh, Julian C Rayner, Eleanor Drury, Sónia Gonçalves, Victoria Simpson, Olivo Miotto, Alistair Miles, Nicholas J White, Francois Nosten, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, Ric N Price, Sarah Auburn
Traditionally, patient travel history has been used to distinguish imported from autochthonous malaria cases, but the dormant liver stages of Plasmodium vivax confound this approach. Molecular tools offer an alternative method to identify, and map imported cases. Using machine learning approaches incorporating hierarchical fixation index and decision tree analyses applied to 799 P. vivax genomes from 21 countries, we identified 33-SNP, 50-SNP and 55-SNP barcodes (GEO33, GEO50 and GEO55), with high capacity to predict the infection's country of origin...
December 23, 2022: Communications Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jacqueline de Aguiar Barros, Fabiana Granja, Pedro Pequeno, Paola Marchesini, Maria de Fátima Ferreira da Cruz
BACKGROUND: Endemic malaria is present in all 15 municipalities of Roraima state, Brazilian Amazonia. Knowledge of epidemiological data of specific populations can guide health policies to formulate effective strategies for integrated control of health-disease care. This study aims to ascertain when, where and who fell ill with malaria in Roraima state from 2010 to 2020. METHODS: This descriptive study was based on statistical secondary surveillance data through the analysis of relationships underlying numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths using the Malaria Epidemiological Surveillance Information System, Mortality Information System and Hospitalization Information System...
November 29, 2022: Malaria Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Romain Coppée, Véronique Sarrasin, Rizwana Zaffaroulah, Azza Bouzayene, Marc Thellier, Harold Noël, Jérôme Clain, Sandrine Houzé
BACKGROUND: Exposure of blood to malaria parasites can lead to infection even in the absence of the anopheles mosquito vector. During a stay in a healthcare facility, accidental inoculation of the skin with blood from a malaria patient might occur, referred to as nosocomial malaria transmission. METHODS: Between 2007 and 2021, we identified six autochthonous malaria cases that occurred in six different French hospitals, originating from nosocomial transmission and imported malaria patients being the infection source...
October 8, 2022: Clinical Infectious Diseases
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Joaquín Salas-Coronas, Alejandra Pérez Pérez, Silvia Roure, Carmen Sánchez Peinador, Laura Santos Larrégola, Javier Arranz Izquierdo, Cristina Bocanegra, Milagros García López Hortelano, Elisa García Vázquez, Helena Moza Moriñigo, Harkaitz Azkune Galparsoro
Human schistosomiasis is the parasitic disease with the highest morbidity and mortality worldwide after malaria. It is endemic in more than 78 tropical and subtropical countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is estimated that 236 million people are infected. It can cause serious health complications at the genitourinary and hepatosplenic level, leading to the death of 300,000 people each year. The number of imported cases in Western countries has increased in recent years due to the arrival of a significant number of migrants from endemic regions and a growing number of travelers who have visited them...
August 2022: Atencion Primaria
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