malaria had being widely prevalent for a long time in iran. before starting any anti-malarial campaign in iran about 60% of population was living in malaria endemic areas. in hyper-endemic areas, approximately 30 to 40% of the total mortality was due to malaria. the malariometric data, reported during 1921-1949 in the malaria surveys in some endemic areas, showed high endemicities of the diseas...

I am honored to give this lecture dedicated to the memory of Dr. Fred Soper, whose pioneering efforts against the insect vectors of malaria and yellow fever are legendary. Soper and his col leagues also played key roles in restoring the con cept of eradication to respectability after the col lapse of earlier campaigns to eradicate hookworm and yellow fever. When Soper was himself in vited to gi...

One of the most important infectious diseases in the world is Malaria. About half of the world populations are exposed to the risk of the disease. The program for controlling and eradication of Malaria has been being conducted in our country since many years ago. One of the public health problems in the endemic and non-endemic countries is Imported Malaria which can ...

"malaria as a disease" in the pre-DDT era must not be forgotten, for, as he states, "it is of great importance to keep alive the excitement of the malaria story, an aim to which this publication is dedicated". The author successfully meets this aim. The design of the book itself is simple and attractive and immediately offers both the specialist and non-specialist reader a fascinating insight i...

Despite declining numbers of cases and deaths, malaria remains a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Today, case management relies heavily on a single class of antimalarial compounds: artemisinins. Hence, development of resistance against artemisinins may destroy current malaria control strategies. Beyond malaria control are elimination and eradication programs that will req...

Calls for the eradication of malaria require the development of global and regional strategies based on a strong and consistent evidence base. Evidence from the previous global malaria eradication program and more recent transborder control campaigns have shown the importance of accounting for human movement in introducing infections to areas targeted for elimination. Here, census-based migrati...

Telecom data is rich on mobility information and as such can be used to identify mobility patterns of people in near real time, enabling to build epidemiological models for understanding where epidemics might spread over time. Based on previous research, we have built an operational tool fed with telecom data which shows malaria risk flows in Zambia in near real time. It provides insights on wh...

Malaria continues to pose a major public health threat in endemic areas. However, times are changing, and many investments have been made in recent years into funding of malaria research, the development of more and improved control tools, and applying those to the field. Consequently, there is a renewed interest in going as far as considering the prospects of malaria elimination on a global sc...

GENBANK, THE PUBLIC REPOSITORY FOR nucleotide and protein sequences, is a critical resource for molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and ecology. While some attention has been drawn to sequence errors (1), common annotation errors also reduce the value of this database. In fact, for organisms such as fungi, which are notoriously difficult to identify, up to 20% of DNA sequence records may h...