Publicaties
Re-imagining malaria Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: In certain regions in Southeast Asia, where malaria is reduced to forested regions populated by ethnic minorities dependent on slash-and-burn agriculture, malaria vector populations have developed a propensity to feed early and outdoors, limiting the effectiveness of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLIN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS). The interplay between heterogeneous human, as well as mosquito behaviour, radically ...
Control of malaria during pregnancy Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Reductions in malaria and anaemia case and death burden at hospitals following scale-up of malaria control in Zanzibar, 1999-2008 Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Implementation of a malaria prevention education intervention in Southern Ethiopia Universiteit Antwerpen
Personal protection by long-lasting insecticidal hammocks against the bites of forest malaria vectors Universiteit Antwerpen
Determinants of uptake of malaria preventive interventions among pregnant women in eastern Uganda Universiteit Antwerpen
Does livestock protect from malaria or facilitate malaria prevalence? A cross-sectional study in endemic rural areas of Indonesia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Ever since it was discovered that zoophilic vectors can transmit malaria, zooprophylaxis has been used to prevent the disease. However, zoopotentiation has also been observed. Thus, the presence of livestock has been widely accepted as an important variable for the prevalence and risk of malaria, but the effectiveness of zooprophylaxis remained subject to debate. This study aims to critically analyse the effects of the presence of ...
Pooled prevalence and risk factors of malaria among children aged 6-59 months in 13 sub-Saharan African countries: a multilevel analysis using recent malaria indicator surveys Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Every 75 seconds, a child under five dies of malaria. Mainly children, aged between six months and five years, are at the highest risk for malaria. These children lost maternal immunity and did not yet developed specific immunity to the infection. Under the age of five, children bear the highest burden of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Many individual and community level factors could contribute to malaria prevalence ...
Monitoring Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax using microsatellite markers indicates limited changes in population structure after substantial transmission decline in Papua New Guinea Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Monitoring the genetic structure of pathogen populations may be an economical and sensitive approach to quantify the impact of control on transmission dynamics, highlighting the need for a better understanding of changes in population genetic parameters as transmission declines. Here we describe the first population genetic analysis of two major human malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) and Plasmodium vivax (Pv), following ...