A Collection of Recent Articles on Malaria in PLoS Medicine
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HEALTH IN ACTION
Teaching Health Workers Malaria DiagnosisGraham Icke, Richard Davis, William McConnell
CORRESPONDENCE
Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment: One Size Does Not Fit AllChris Drakeley, Roly Gosling, Hugh Reyburn
Volume Status in Severe Malaria: No Evidence Provided for the Degree of Filling of the Intravascular CompartmentKathryn Maitland, Charles Newton, Kevin Marsh, Mike Levin
PERSPECTIVES
The Benefits of Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Malaria Extend Beyond the Individual PatientPaul Garner, Patricia M. Graves
Rolling Back a Malaria Epidemic in South AfricaPatrick E. Duffy, Theonest K. Mutabingwa
Seasonal Patterns of Infectious DiseasesMercedes Pascual, Andy Dobson
Promising Functional Readouts of Immunity in a Blood-Stage Malaria Vaccine TrialBrendan S. Crabb, James G. Beeson
POLICY FORUM
Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for MalariaNicholas J. White
Revisiting the Tsunami: Health Consequences of FloodingOliver Morgan, Mike Ahern, Sandy Cairncross
Strengthening the Role of Genomics in Global HealthTara Acharya, Abdallah S. Daar, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, et al.
Nanotechnology and the Developing WorldFabio Salamanca-Buentello, Deepa L. Persad, Erin B. Court, et al.
An Immeasurable Crisis? A Criticism of the Millennium Development Goals and Why They Cannot Be MeasuredAmir Attaran
ESSAY
Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of Public HealthMatthew Gandy
NEGLECTED DISEASES
A Breakthrough in R&D for Neglected Diseases: New Ways to Get the Drugs We NeedMary Moran
New Drugs for Neglected Diseases: From Pipeline to PatientsBernard Pécoul
Designing Drugs for Parasitic Diseases of the Developing WorldJames H. McKerrow
Research Articles in PLoS Medicine
A Malaria Vaccine That Elicits in Humans Antibodies Able to Kill Plasmodium falciparum
Pierre Druilhe, François Spertini, Daw Soesoe, et al.
Heritability of Malaria in Africa
Margaret J. Mackinnon,Tabitha W. Mwangi, Robert W. Snow, et al.
Maternal Malaria and Gravidity Interact to Modify Infant Susceptibility to Malaria
Theonest K. Mutabingwa, Melissa C. Bolla, Jin-Long Li, et al.
Assessment of Volume Depletion in Children with Malaria
Timothy Planche, Myriam Onanga, Achim Schwenk, et al.
Inhibition of Endothelial Activation: A New Way to Treat Cerebral Malaria?
Samuel C. Wassmer, George J. Cianciolo, Valéry Combes, Georges E. Grau
Artemisinin versus Nonartemisinin Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Malaria: Randomized Clinical Trials from Four Sites in Uganda
Adoke Yeka, Kristin Banek, Nathan Bakyaita, et al.
Reduction of Malaria Transmission to Anopheles Mosquitoes with a Six-Dose Regimen of Co-Artemether
Colin J. Sutherland, Rosalynn Ord, Sam Dunyo, et al.
Effect of Artemether-Lumefantrine Policy and Improved Vector Control on Malaria Burden in KwaZulu—Natal, South Africa
Karen I. Barnes, David N. Durrheim, Francesca Little, et al.
An Immune Basis for Malaria Protection by the Sickle Cell Trait
Thomas N. Williams, Tabitha W. Mwangi, David J. Roberts, et al.
Estimation of the Total Parasite Biomass in Acute Falciparum Malaria from Plasma PfHRP2
Arjen M. Dondorp, Varunee Desakorn, Wirichada Pongtavornpinyo, et al.
A Randomised, Double-Blind, Controlled Vaccine Efficacy Trial of DNA/MVA ME-TRAP Against Malaria Infection in Gambian Adults
Vasee S. Moorthy, Egeruan B. Imoukhuede, Paul Milligan, et al.
Research Articles in Other PLoS Journals
Malaria Infection Increases Attractiveness of Humans to Mosquitoes
Renaud Lacroix, Wolfgang R. Mukabana, Louis Clement Gouagna, Jacob C. Koella
Cell-Passage Activity Is Required for the Malarial Parasite to Cross the Liver Sinusoidal Cell Layer
Tomoko Ishino, Kazuhiko Yano, Yasuo Chinzei, Masao Yuda
Intravital Observation of Plasmodium berghei Sporozoite Infection of the Liver
Ute Frevert, Sabine Engelmann, Sergine Zougbédé, et al.
Immunity Promotes Virulence Evolution in a Malaria Model
Margaret J. Mackinnon, Andrew F. Read
The Transcriptome of the Intraerythrocytic Developmental Cycle of Plasmodium falciparum
Zbynek Bozdech, Manuel Llinás, Brian Lee Pulliam, et al.
Exit of Plasmodium Sporozoites from Oocysts Is an Active Process That Involves the Circumsporozoite Protein
Qian Wang, Hisashi Fujioka, Victor Nussenzweig