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A cluster randomised controlled trial of two rounds of mass drug administration in Zanzibar, a malaria pre-elimination setting-high coverage and safety, but no significant impact on transmission

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A deep sequencing tool for partitioning clearance rates following antimalarial treatment in polyclonal infections

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

A qualitative study on caretakers' perceived need of bed-nets after reduced malaria transmission in Zanzibar, Tanzania

scientific article

Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Adding a single low-dose of primaquine (0.25 mg/kg) to artemether-lumefantrine did not compromise treatment outcome of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Tanzania: a randomized, single-blinded clinical trial

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Adherence to artesunate-amodiaquine combination therapy for uncomplicated malaria in children in Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Algorithm for the diagnosis of anaemia without laboratory facilities among small children in a malaria endemic area of rural Tanzania

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Allelic dimorphism-associated restriction of recombination in Plasmodium falciparum msp1.

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Amodiaquine clearance and its metabolism to N-desethylamodiaquine is mediated by CYP2C8: a new high affinity and turnover enzyme-specific probe substrate

scientific article published in February 2002

Amodiaquine during pregnancy

scientific article published in December 2004

Amodiaquine resistance is not related to rare findings of pfmdr1 gene amplifications in Kenya

scientific article published in December 2006

Amodiaquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in vivo is associated with selection of pfcrt 76T and pfmdr1 86Y.

scientific article published on 2 November 2005

An online mapping database of molecular markers of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: the ACT Partner Drug Molecular Surveyor

Anemia and malaria at different altitudes in the western highlands of Kenya

scientific article published on July 2004

Antimalarial exposure delays Plasmodium falciparum intra-erythrocytic cycle and drives drug transporter genes expression

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

Antipyretic, parasitologic, and immunologic effects of combining sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine with chloroquine or paracetamol for treating uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

scientific article published on October 2003

Arterolane, a new synthetic trioxolane for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a phase II, multicenter, randomized, dose-finding clinical trial

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Assessing the cost-benefit effect of a Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance mutation on parasite growth in vitro

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Author Correction: The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent Plasmodium falciparum infections in relation to parasite density

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Baseline data of parasite clearance in patients with falciparum malaria treated with an artemisinin derivative: an individual patient data meta-analysis

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CYP2C8 status of patients with malaria influences selection of Plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 alleles after amodiaquine-artesunate treatment

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Characterising temporal trends in asymptomatic Plasmodium infections and transporter polymorphisms during transition from high to low transmission in Zanzibar, 2005-2013.

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Characteristic age distribution of Plasmodium vivax infections after malaria elimination on Aneityum Island, Vanuatu

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Coinfection with Enteric Pathogens in East African Children with Acute Gastroenteritis-Associations and Interpretations

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Decreased prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance markers to amodiaquine despite its wide scale use as ACT partner drug in Zanzibar

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

Delayed clearance of Plasmodium falciparum in patients with human immunodeficiency virus co-infection treated with artemisinin.

scientific article published on April 2002

Diversity of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase orthologue of Plasmodium falciparum (PfATP6).

scientific article published on 15 February 2008

Drug resistance associated genetic polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax collected in Honduras, Central America

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Efficacy and effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine after initial and repeated treatment in children <5 years of age with acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in rural Tanzania: a randomized trial

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Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine dispersible tablets compared with crushed commercial tablets in African infants and children with uncomplicated malaria: a randomised, single-blind, multicentre trial

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Efficacy of artesunate plus amodiaquine versus that of artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated childhood Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Endophilic Anopheles mosquitoes in Guinea Bissau, west Africa, in relation to human housing conditions

scientific article published in July 2004

Epidemiology of malaria in a village in the Rufiji River Delta, Tanzania: declining transmission over 25 years revealed by different parasitological metrics

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Expansion of wild type allele rather than back mutation in pfcrt explains the recent recovery of chloroquine sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum in Malawi

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Field deployment of loop-mediated isothermal amplification for centralized mass-screening of asymptomatic malaria in Zanzibar: a pre-elimination setting

scientific article published on 17 May 2015

Geographic differentiation of polymorphism in the Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine candidate gene SERA5.

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

High effective coverage of vector control interventions in children after achieving low malaria transmission in Zanzibar, Tanzania

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

High frequency of recombination-driven allelic diversity and temporal variation of Plasmodium falciparum msp1 in Tanzania.

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High prevalence of double Plasmodium falciparum dhfr mutations at codons 108 and 59 in the Sistan-Baluchistan province, Iran.

scientific article published in June 2003

Identification of human cytochrome P(450)s that metabolise anti-parasitic drugs and predictions of in vivo drug hepatic clearance from in vitro data

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Impact of artemisinin-based combination therapy and insecticide-treated nets on malaria burden in Zanzibar

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Impact of introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on antibiotic prescribing: analysis of observational and randomised studies in public and private healthcare settings

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Impact of training in clinical and microscopy diagnosis of childhood malaria on antimalarial drug prescription and health outcome at primary health care level in Tanzania: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 02 October 2008

Improving prescribing practices with rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs): synthesis of 10 studies to explore reasons for variation in malaria RDT uptake and adherence

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

In vitro recombination during PCR of Plasmodium falciparum DNA: a potential pitfall in molecular population genetic analysis

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In vitro recrudescence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites suppressed to dormant state by atovaquone alone and in combination with proguanil

scientific article published in January 2005

In vivo selection of Plasmodium falciparum parasites carrying the chloroquine-susceptible pfcrt K76 allele after treatment with artemether-lumefantrine in Africa

scientific article published on March 2009

In vivo selection of Plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 86N coding alleles by artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem).

scientific article published on 8 February 2005

Independent evolution of pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Melanesia

scientific article published on 8 January 2007

Influence of consecutive-day blood sampling on polymerase chain reaction-adjusted parasitological cure rates in an antimalarial-drug trial conducted in Tanzania

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Influence of rapid malaria diagnostic tests on treatment and health outcome in fever patients, Zanzibar: a crossover validation study

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Intervention against malaria requires international solidarity. Institutions and drug industry should find new forms of collaboration

scientific article published in January 2004

Limited advantage of multiple consecutive samples for genotyping Plasmodium falciparum populations during the first days of treatment.

scientific article published in July 2005

Little Polymorphism at the K13 Propeller Locus in Worldwide Plasmodium falciparum Populations Prior to the Introduction of Artemisinin Combination Therapies

scientific article published on 21 March 2016

Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) accurately detects malaria DNA from filter paper blood samples of low density parasitaemias

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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for point-of-care detection of asymptomatic low-density malaria parasite carriers in Zanzibar

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MRP2/ABCC2 C1515Y polymorphism modulates exposure to lumefantrine during artemether-lumefantrine antimalarial therapy

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Malaria associated anaemia, drug resistance and antimalarial combination therapy

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Malaria diagnosis and treatment practices following introduction of rapid diagnostic tests in Kibaha District, Coast Region, Tanzania

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

Malaria dispersal among islands: human mediated Plasmodium falciparum gene flow in Vanuatu, Melanesia

scientific article published on April 2004

Malaria rapid testing by community health workers is effective and safe for targeting malaria treatment: randomised cross-over trial in Tanzania

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Malaria research: host-parasite interactions and new developments in chemotherapy, immunology and vaccinology

scientific article published in October 2000

Mass screening and treatment on the basis of results of a Plasmodium falciparum-specific rapid diagnostic test did not reduce malaria incidence in Zanzibar

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Multiple genotypes of the merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2 in Plasmodium falciparum infections in a hypoendemic area in Iran

scientific article published in October 2005

Multiplex PCR-RFLP methods for pfcrt, pfmdr1 and pfdhfr mutations in Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Novel polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum ABC transporter genes are associated with major ACT antimalarial drug resistance

scientific article published in 2011

OCCURRENCE OF DAY 3 SUBMICROSCOPICPLASMODIUM FALCIPARUMPARASITAEMIA BEFORE AND AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTEMETHER-LUMEFANTRINE TREATMENT POLICY IN TANZANIA

scholarly article by Billy Ngasala et al published February 2017 in BMJ Global Health

On the effects of malaria treatment on parasite drug resistance--probability modelling of genotyped malaria infections

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Optimal sampling designs for accurate estimation of parasite clearance in the context of artemisinin resistance

Optimal sampling designs for estimation of Plasmodium falciparum clearance rates in patients treated with artemisinin derivatives

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Pallor as a sign of anaemia in small Tanzanian children at different health care levels.

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Pathogen Clearance and New Respiratory Tract Infections Among Febrile Children in Zanzibar Investigated With Multitargeting Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction on Paired Nasopharyngeal Swab Samples

scientific article published in 2018

Pharmacodynamic interactions among atovaquone, proguanil and cycloguanil against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro

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Plasmodium falciparum Plasmepsin 2 Duplications, West Africa

scientific article published in 2018

Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance phenotype as assessed by patient antimalarial drug levels and its association with pfmdr1 polymorphisms

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance protein 1 and artemisinin-based combination therapy in Africa

scientific article published on November 2009

Plasmodium falciparum population dynamics during the early phase of anti-malarial drug treatment in Tanzanian children with acute uncomplicated malaria ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 2011

Polyclonal Plasmodium falciparum malaria in travelers and selection of antifolate mutations after proguanil prophylaxis.

scientific article published in May 2002

Polymorphism of antimalaria drug metabolizing, nuclear receptor, and drug transport genes among malaria patients in Zanzibar, East Africa

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Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter and multidrug resistance 1 genes: parasite risk factors that affect treatment outcomes for P. falciparum malaria after artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-amodiaquine

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Polymorphisms in the K13-propeller gene in artemisinin-susceptible Plasmodium falciparum parasites from Bougoula-Hameau and Bandiagara, Mali

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of artemether and lumefantrine during combination treatment in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Tanzania

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Population pharmacokinetics of amodiaquine and desethylamodiaquine in pediatric patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria

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Prevalence of PCR detectable malaria infection among febrile patients with a negative Plasmodium falciparum specific rapid diagnostic test in Zanzibar

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

Public health impact of drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria

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Quinine treatment selects the pfnhe-1 ms4760-1 polymorphism in Malian patients with Falciparum malaria

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Rapid Clearance and Frequent Reinfection With Enteric Pathogens Among Children With Acute Diarrhea in Zanzibar

scientific article published on October 2017

Rapid diagnostic tests for molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum malaria -assessment of DNA extraction methods and field applicability

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Real-time PCR threshold cycle cutoffs help to identify agents causing acute childhood diarrhea in Zanzibar

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Recovery of chloroquine sensitivity and low prevalence of the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter gene mutation K76T following the discontinuance of chloroquine use in Malawi

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Reductions in malaria and anaemia case and death burden at hospitals following scale-up of malaria control in Zanzibar, 1999-2008 ⬇️

scientific article published on February 18, 2011

Relationship between antipyretic effects and cytokine levels in uncomplicated falciparum malaria during different treatment regimes.

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Risks and benefits of targeted malaria treatment based on rapid diagnostic test results

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Role of pfmdr1 mutations on chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates with pfcrt K76T from Papua New Guinea

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SYBR Green real-time PCR-RFLP assay targeting the plasmodium cytochrome B gene--a highly sensitive molecular tool for malaria parasite detection and species determination

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Safety and efficacy of re-treatments with pyronaridine-artesunate in African patients with malaria: a substudy of the WANECAM randomised trial

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Safety of a single low-dose of primaquine in addition to standard artemether-lumefantrine regimen for treatment of acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Tanzania

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Schistosomiasis in European Travelers and Migrants: Analysis of 14 Years TropNet Surveillance Data

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Selection of pfmdr1 mutations after amodiaquine monotherapy and amodiaquine plus artemisinin combination therapy in East Africa

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Sentinel network for monitoring in vitro susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to antimalarial drugs in Colombia: a proof of concept ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Short report: polymorphisms in the pfcrt and pfmdr1 genes of Plasmodium falciparum and in vitro susceptibility to amodiaquine and desethylamodiaquine

scientific article published on December 2007

Similar efficacy and tolerability of double-dose chloroquine and artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Guinea-Bissau: a randomized trial

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Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum V type H(+) pyrophosphatase gene (pfvp2) and their associations with pfcrt and pfmdr1 polymorphisms

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Spatial Distribution of Falciparum Malaria Infections in Zanzibar: Implications for Focal Drug Administration Strategies Targeting Asymptomatic Parasite Carriers

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Sustained High Cure Rate of Artemether-Lumefantrine against Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria after 8 Years of Its Wide-Scale Use in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania

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System effectiveness of a targeted free mass distribution of long lasting insecticidal nets in Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Temporal trends of molecular markers associated with artemether-lumefantrine tolerance/resistance in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

The Impact of Introducing Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Fever Case Management: A Synthesis of Ten Studies from the ACT Consortium

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

The effect of dosing strategies on the therapeutic efficacy of artesunate-amodiaquine for uncomplicated malaria: a meta-analysis of individual patient data

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

The effect of food consumption on lumefantrine bioavailability in African children receiving artemether-lumefantrine crushed or dispersible tablets (Coartem) for acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

The role of pfmdr1 in Plasmodium falciparum tolerance to artemether-lumefantrine in Africa

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The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent Plasmodium falciparum infections in relation to parasite density

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The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in Zanzibar

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Time-dependent pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism of atovaquone plus proguanil (Malarone) when taken as chemoprophylaxis

scientific article published on 28 February 2002

Unexpected selections of Plasmodium falciparum polymorphisms in previously treatment-naïve areas after monthly presumptive administration of three different anti-malarial drugs in Liberia 1976-78.

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

Usefulness of Plasmodium falciparum-specific rapid diagnostic tests for assessment of parasite clearance and detection of recurrent infections after artemisinin-based combination therapy

scientific article published on October 2013

Variability in malaria prophylaxis prescribing across Europe: a Delphi method analysis

scientific article published on September 2008

WHO, the Global Fund, and medical malpractice in malaria treatment

scientific article published in April 2004

Willingness and ability to pay for artemisinin-based combination therapy in rural Tanzania

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

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