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Last week at MalariaWorld...5 jobs!, an invitation, and blogs!

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has no less than 5 exciting job openings for malariologists advertised on MalariaWorld this week. Vector control specialists, vector biologists, those interested in malaria elimination, and in malaria epidemiology will find these interesting. Read more here and here.

Also this week an invitation for all to attend a symposium titled 'Malaria, maternal and infant health; perspectives from Africa and Asia', with a great line-up of well-known speakers. To be held at the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Amsterdam, on 19 June. Read more here.

An array of themes in a series of blogs. First, a blog on 'How not to control malaria' by Dr. Sawa from Kenya. Read it here. Then an announcement from the Global Health Group at UCSF about eleven country briefings for the Asia-Pacific region, read more here. And finally an editorial about this week's announcement from WHO regarding the problems faced with insecticide resistance. Read it here.

Enjoy this week's MalariaWorld - the MW team.

Event: Symposium Malaria, maternal and infant health

Organisation: AIGHD & AMC

Date: June 19th, 2012

Time: 12.30-17.00 hrs

Location: Academic Medical Center (AMC) Lecture Hall 5,    Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam

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Job: Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Epidemiology

Organisation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Location: Blantyre, Malawi

Closing Date: 8th June 2012, 12.00pm BST 

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Job: Inspiring scientists in infectious tropical diseases

 

Organisation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Closing Date: 25 May 2012, 12.00pm (BST)

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NOT Open Access | A critical view on antimalarial endoperoxide QSAR studies

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Author(s): 
Teixeira RR, Carneiro JW, Araujo MT, Taranto AG.
Reference: 
Mini Rev Med Chem. 2012 Jun 1;12(6):562-72.
Contact email: 
robsonr.teixeira@ufv.br

MalariaWorldThis work presents a critical view on some QSAR models, and shows that, due to lack of a rigorous selection of the descriptors entering the models, most of them are unable to accurately indicate the molecular cause of biological activity. Some reasons for the weakness of the published models are discussed.

NOT Open Access | Strand-Specific RNA-seq Applied to Malaria Samples

Author(s): 
Ponts N, Chung DW, Le Roch KG
Reference: 
Methods Mol Biol. 2012;883:59-73
Contact email: 
Chung@cshs.org

MalariaWorldThe method presented here is flexible and cost-effective. Using this method, we prepared high-quality strand-specific RNA-seq libraries from RNA extracted from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Efficacy of ICON(R) Maxx in the laboratory and against insecticide-resistant Anopheles gambiae in central Cote d'Ivoire

Author(s): 
Winkler MS, Tchicaya E, Koudou BG, Donze J, Nsanzabana C, Muller P, Adja AM, Utzinger J
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2012, 11:167 (15 May 2012)
Contact email: 
mirko.winkler@unibas.ch

MalariaWorldIn contrast to previous laboratory investigation, ICON(R) Maxx-treated nets showed only moderate KD and mortality rates.

Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food for Catch-Up Growth in Children after an Episode of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: An Open Randomised Controlled Trial

Author(s): 
Saskia van der Kam, Todd Swarthout, Oscar Niragira, Alyson Froud, Eric Mukomena Sompwe, Clair Mills, Stephanie Roll, Peter Tinnemann, Leslie Shanks
Reference: 
PLoS ONE 7(4): e35006

MalariaWorldChildren receiving RUTF for 14 days after effective treatment of an uncomplicated malaria episode had a faster weight gain than children not given supplementation, reducing the period that children were at risk of malnutrition.

NOT Open Access | Unexpected fold in the circumsporozoite protein target of malaria vaccines

Author(s): 
Michael B. Doud, Adem C. Koksal, Li-Zhi Mi, Gaojie Song, Chafen Lu, and Timothy A. Springer
Reference: 
PNAS May 15, 2012 vol. 109 no. 20 7817-7822
Contact email: 
springer@idi.harvard.edu

MalariaWorldCircumsporozoite (CS) protein is the major surface component of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites and is essential for host cell invasion.

Isolation of Plasmodium falciparum by flow-cytometry: implications for single-trophozoite genotyping and parasite DNA purification for whole-genome high-throughput sequencing of archival samples

Author(s): 
Boissière A, Arnathau C, Duperray C, Berry L, Lachaud L, Renaud F, Durand P, Prugnolle F
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2012, 11:163 (14 May 2012)
Contact email: 
anne.boissiere@ird.fr

MalariaWorldThe results demonstrate that single trophozoite genotyping is possible and that cell sorting can be successfully applied to reduce the contaminating host DNA for subsequent whole genome sequencing of parasites extracted from infected blood samples.

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