Malaria is prevalent throughout coastal and lowland Papua New Guinea. Recent changes, including a shift from predominance of Plasmodium vivax to Plasmodium falciparum, appearance of… (More)
Preliminary findings of a study of the role of microspatial behavior and local ecological circumstances in the persistence of Schistosoma haematobium infection in El Ayaisha village, Upper Egypt, are… (More)
Papua New Guineans exposed to hyperendemic malaria in the Madang area showed different antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax sporozoites despite comparable entomological… (More)
The malaria incidence and prevalence rates among children who slept under permethrin-impregnated mosquito nets in four villages near Madang, Papua New Guinea, were compared with the rates among… (More)
The proportion of blood meals taken on humans which are infectious to mosquitoes in the Madang area, Papua New Guinea was estimated by two methods. In the first, laboratory reared Anopheles farauti… (More)
Ovalocytosis, an hereditary condition in which most erythrocytes are oval in shape, is a polymorphism that occurs in up to 20% or more of the population in Papua New Guinea and Malaysia. Due to the… (More)
Cross-sectional and longitudinal village-based studies of the transmission dynamics of an S-antigen serotype of the asexual erythrocyte stages of Plasmodium falciparum have been carried out in… (More)
Recent human trials of candidate vaccines against the sporozoite and asexual blood stages of the malaria parasite have produced encouraging evidence that synthetic peptides and recombinant proteins… (More)