Background: Ethiopia is one of the African countries where Plasmodium falciparum and P.
vivax co-exist. Monitoring and evaluation of current malaria transmission status is an …

The current global initiative to eliminate lymphatic filariasis represents one of the largest mass
drug administration programmes ever conceived for the control of a parasitic disease. Yet, …

Four Plasmodium species cause malaria in humans. Most malaria-endemic regions feature
mixed infections involving two or more of these species. Factors contributing to …

Geographic overlap between malaria and the occurrence of mutant hemoglobin and erythrocyte
surface proteins has indicated that polymorphisms in human genes have been selected …

… coatneyi expresses the comparable variant antigen multi-gene family (J. Barnwell and M. …
of animals induced into a semi-immune state (J. Barnwell and W. Collins, unpublished data). …

Infants and children are routinely vaccinated with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) in areas of
the world where worm infections are common. Because maternal helminth infection during …

The allelic and haplotypic diversity of the HLA‐A, HLA‐B, and HLA‐C loci was investigated
in 852 subjects from five sub‐Saharan populations from Kenya (Nandi and Luo), Mali (Dogon…

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), numerous blood group polymorphisms and hemoglobinopathies
characterize the human population. Human genetic polymorphisms of this nature are …

Perennial and intense malaria transmission (holoendemic malaria) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
infection are 2 cofactors in the pathogenesis of endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL). In the …

Background. Available treatments for lymphatic filariasis (LF) are limited in their longterm
clearance of microfilaria from the blood. The safety and efficacy of a single-dose triple-drug …