Spillover: From climate change to pandemics by Mary E. Wilson

“…While some areas in Africa are projected to become too hot for malaria transmission, changing climate will allow expansion of Aedes-transmitted viral infections, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, into areas with large urban populations. …”
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Antimicrobial Agents Based on Metal Complexes: Present Situation and Future Prospects by Bharti Sharma, Sudeep Shukla, Rohit Rattan, Musarrat Fatima, Mayurika Goel, Mamta Bhat, Shruti Dutta, Rakesh Kumar Ranjan, Mamta Sharma

“…Many new metal-based drugs were developed from the metal complexes which are potentially active against a number of ailments such as cancer, malaria, and neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, this review is an attempt to describe the present scenario and future development of metal complexes as antibiotics against wide array of microbes.…”
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Antiplasmodial Compounds from Millettia Dura. by Buyinza, Daniel, Derese, Solomon, Ndakala, Albert

“…Malaria still poses a big challenge to the health care of many tropical countries. …”
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Voacanga africana-artesunate and Voacanga africana-amodiaquine combinations as effective anti-plasmodial agents in mice by Daniel Ampomah Frimpong, Aliu Moomin, Samuel Asare Nkansah, Aaron Opoku Antwi, Abubakar Ibn Sidik, Paa Kofi Tawiah Adu-Gyamfi, Kwesi Boadu Mensah

“…Background: Malaria is a global health problem due to its high incidence of morbidity and mortality, especially in children and pregnant women. …”
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Green Nanoparticles for Mosquito Control by Namita Soni, Soam Prakash

“…The larvicidal activity has been tested against the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi and filariasis vector Culex quinquefasciatus. …”
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On Programmed Cell Death in Plasmodium falciparum: Status Quo by Dewaldt Engelbrecht, Pierre Marcel Durand, Thérèsa Louise Coetzer

“…Conflicting arguments and results exist regarding the occurrence and phenotype of programmed cell death (PCD) in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Inconsistencies relate mainly to the number and type of PCD markers assessed and the different methodologies used in the studies. …”
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Miltefosine Rescue Treatment for Visceral Leishmaniasis Relapse Patient by Anup Bastola, Mitesh Shrestha, Bimal Sharma Chalise, Abhdesh Kumar Mishra, Lina Devkota

“…The patient tested negative for malaria and HIV. Upon treatment completion with miltefosine, the patient had clinically improved and showed no LD bodies in bone marrow.…”
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Knockdown resistance associated organochlorine resistance in mosquito–borne diseases (Anopheles culicifacies): A systematic review by Ebrahim Abbasi, Salman Daliri, Shokrollah Mohseni, Aman Allah Zamani, Noorbakhsh Alivand, Mohammad Djaefar Moemenbellah-Fard

“…Conclusions: Stable kdr resistance in An. culicifacies to organochlorine insecticides highlights the need for periodic susceptibility assessments and strategic rotation or combination of insecticides to combat malaria effectively and prevent the development of resistance.…”
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Network-level reproduction number and extinction threshold for vector-borne diseases by Ling Xue, Caterina Scoglio

“…Numerical simulation results for malaria and Rift Valley fever transmission on heterogeneous networks are in agreement with analytical results without any assumptions, reinforcing that the relationships may always exist and proposing a mathematical problem for proving existence of the relationships in general. …”
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Potential associations of selected polymorphic genetic variants with COVID-19 disease susceptibility and severity. by Orsolya Mózner, Edit Szabó, Anna Kulin, György Várady, Judit Moldvay, Vivien Vass, Andrea Szentesi, Ágoston Jánosi, Péter Hegyi, Balázs Sarkadi

“…Interestingly, the ATP2B4 minor haplotype, protecting against malaria, correlated with an increased disease susceptibility, while in diabetic patients disease susceptibility was lower in the presence of a reduced-function ABCG2 transporter variant. …”
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The Development Related Role of Pottery Production in the Ankole Region in Western Uganda: A Case Study by Kayamba, William K., Kwesiga, Philip

“…These efforts have produced pools of still water in some locations, which serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes that carry malaria over much of the region.…”
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Complex wolbachia infection dynamics in mosquitoes with imperfect maternal transmission by Bo Zheng, Wenliang Guo, Linchao Hu, Mugen Huang, Jianshe Yu

“…Dengue, malaria, and Zika are dangerous diseases primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Anopheles stephensi. …”
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Nanogels Containing Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Mentha piperita L. Essential Oils: Mosquitoes’ Repellent Activity and Antibacterial Effect by Alireza Sanei-Dehkordi, Abbas Abdollahi, Mojdeh Safari, Farnaz Karami, Ghazal Ghaznavi, Mahmoud Osanloo

“…Its completely protected time against Anopheles stephensi, the main malaria mosquito vector, was 120 ± 8 min. Moreover, the growth of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus after treatment with 5000 µg/mL of nanogel containing M. piperita essential oil was reduced by 100 and 65%, respectively. …”
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Doctors’ knowledge, practices, challenges, and limitations regarding disclosure of bad news: A multicentre study from Pakistan by Asma Usman, Sameena Shah, Samar Zaki, Kashmira Nanji, Sobiya Sawani, Saher Naseeb Uneeb, Naseem Bari, Obaid Ullah, Sumera Abid

“…Results: 80% of doctors across all specialties considered life-threatening diagnoses like cancer and stroke as equivalent to bad news, whereas less than 50% perceived conditions like malaria and typhoid as bad news. Regarding the level of difficulty encountered in giving bad news on a scale of 0 to 6, over 57% doctors rated it 4 and above. …”
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Dynamics of delayed mosquitoes populations models with two different strategies of releasing sterile mosquitoes by Liming Cai, Shangbing Ai, Guihong Fan

“…To prevent the transmissions of mosquito-borne diseases (e.g., malaria, dengue fever), recent works have considered the problem of using the sterile insect technique to reduce or eradicate the wild mosquito population. …”
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Pharmacognostic evaluation of Lasimorpha senegalensis schott leaves (Araceae) by Ginikachukwu MaryRose Okoh, Obinna Sabastin Onugwu, Obodike Christopher Ezugwu

“… The leaves of Lasimorpha senegalensis Schott (Araceae) have long been utilized in conventional medicine to treat conditions like diabetes, inflammation, malaria, oxidative stress, and fever. However, its properties have not been standardized to prevent adulteration. …”
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Widespread release of translational repression across Plasmodium's host-to-vector transmission event. by Kelly T Rios, James P McGee, Aswathy Sebastian, Sanjaya Aththawala Gedara, Robert L Moritz, Marina Feric, Sabrina Absalon, Kristian E Swearingen, Scott E Lindner

“…Malaria parasites must respond quickly to environmental changes, including during their transmission between mammalian and mosquito hosts. …”
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mosGILT antibodies interfere with Plasmodium sporogony in Anopheles gambiae by Brady Dolan, Tomás Correa Gaviria, Yuemei Dong, Peter Cresswell, George Dimopoulos, Yu-Min Chuang, Erol Fikrig

“…Abstract Plasmodium, the causative agents of malaria, are obtained by mosquitoes from an infected human. …”
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Various Terpenoids Derived from Herbal and Dietary Plants Function as PPAR Modulators and Regulate Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism by Tsuyoshi Goto, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Shizuka Hirai, Teruo Kawada

“…In particular, terpenoids are contained in many herbal plants, and several terpenoids have been shown to be available for pharmaceutical applications, for example, artemisinin and taxol as malaria and cancer medicines, respectively. Various terpenoids are contained in many plants for not only herbal use but also dietary use. …”
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The modification of conventional liposomes for targeted antimicrobial delivery to treat infectious diseases by Nnamdi Ikemefuna Okafor, Omobolanle Ayoyinka Omoteso, Yahya E. Choonara

“…Abstract Some of the most crucial turning points in the treatment strategies for some major infectious diseases including AIDS, malaria, and TB, have been reached with the introduction of antimicrobials and vaccines. …”
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