genomics research and malaria control great expectations基因组学研究和疟疾控制远大前程.pdfVIP

Essay Genomics Research and Malaria Control: Great Expectations Vincent P. Alibu, Thomas G. Egwang he protozoan parasite public health system. The current to target disease) is used for both Plasmodium falciparum causes malarial control strategies consist of treatment and prevention. Drug Tfalciparum malaria, a fatal chemotherapy directed against the resistance is increasingly becoming parasitic disease in humans, and is malaria parasite and prevention of a problem. Some of the antimalarial transmitted by Anopheles mosquito mosquito vector/human contact using drugs in current use include quinolines, vectors (predominantly the Anopheles insecticide-impregnated bednets and, artemisinins, antifolates, atovaquone/ gambiae complex and An. funestus in to a lesser extent, indoor residual proguanil, and antibiotics. Chloroquine Africa). There are about 300 million insecticide spraying and environmental malaria cases and 1–2 million deaths control for reducing mosquito Vincent P. Alibu is at the Zentrum für Moleculare annually, the brunt of which are breeding sites. There are still no Biologie at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Thomas G. Egwang, an International Research Scholar borne mostly in Africa by children malaria vaccines in clinical practice. of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is in the under 5 years of age and by pregnant Department of Medical Parasitology at the Medical women. In many African countr