The replacement of conventional antimalarial drugs with high-cost, artemisinin-based alternatives has created a gap in the successful management of malaria. This gap reflects an increased need for ...

An international study published in the Malaria Journal claims that a widely used test for detecting malaria is delivering ...

They were particularly interested in identifying those who were infected, but had no symptoms. The researchers initially used microscopy and an SD Bioline Rapid Diagnostic Test to identify patients ...

Malaria kills > 1 million children aged < 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa annually. Current control efforts are hampered by increasing drug resistance, unreliable diagnostics, widespread overtreatment ...

An international team of researchers is working to find a way to identify individuals carrying malaria who do not have symptoms of the disease. They recently discovered that malaria could be diagnosed ...

Diagnosing symptomatic carriers of malaria is difficult enough, needing careful examination of blood samples to identify parasites, but picking up asymptomatic carriers is even more challenging. These ...

With close to 50% of the world’s population living in areas endemic to malaria and almost half a million malaria deaths per year, identifying asymptomatic carriers of this parasitic infection is a ...

When Brian Grimberg and a team at Case Western Reserve University began working on their Rapid Assessment of Malaria (RAM) device nearly four years ago, it was the size of a kitchen table. Today, the ...

In regions where a large proportion of women have submicroscopic malaria infections that may (or may not) impact pregnancy outcome, LAMP, with sensitivity between that of conventional PCR, microscopy ...

Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect far more people every year. An international team of researchers is working toward a way to ...