topnaman | Malaria blog

The NY Times featured artemisinin resistance along the Thai-Cambodia border yesterday (though it wasn’t written by Donald McNeil who is the author for most of their global health work). I’ve previously discussed the topic (here, and here), and I am part of a team which researches malaria drug resistance in Cambodia. First, my use of [...]

A very interesting malaria case was reported in the CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases journal (open access). Theunissen et al. describe a patient who contracted Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Belgium despite not having  visited any malaria endemic area for nine years! What happened here? A number of possibilities exist. Relapse from a previous infection is not [...]

A key article from the recent Malaria Journal supplement (previously discussed here) described the role of anti-malarial drugs in reducing malaria transmission (the actual title referred to eliminating malaria, going along with the issue’s theme, but the message really applies to any form of malaria control).  The author of the paper is Dr. Nicholas White, [...]

I accidentally stumbled across the site Gooz News a year ago. Gooz News is the blog of longtime writer and reporter Merrill Goozner.  It was a fortuitous find of some rather interesting malaria thoughts (in both the actual posts as well as reader comments) that I have not seen elsewhere – particularly those which provided [...]

PLOS Medicine (open access! – I enjoy supporting journals in this format) did it again. The journal has carried some great exchanges between scientific “clans” on contentious topics which tend to be both lively and informative. A previous debate included whether or not data from Demographic Surveillance Systems (DSS), a form of long term demographic [...]