MALARIA: Weekly Update from Malaria Nexus 12 April 2013

Amyris discovers a new way for producing large amounts of artemisinin The company Amyris described this week in the journal Nature a revolutionizing technology for the generation of high quantities of the antimalarial artemisinin.   Posted on 11 April 2013 A combination of tetrandrine and chloroquine effectively treats chloroquine-resistant malaria in monkeys A study recently published in the Malaria Journal shows the effectiveness of a tetrandrine and chloroquine drug combination in vivo.   Feature Articles   Posted on 11 April 2013 Mobile phones and malaria: Modeling human and parasite travel Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 11, Issue 1, January–February 2013, Pages 15-22 Caroline O. Buckee, Amy Wesolowski, Nathan N. Eagle, Elsa Hansen, Robert W. Snow   Posted on 11 April 2013 Impact of environment on mosquito response to pyrethroid insecticides: Facts, evidences and prospects Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 43, Issue 4, April 2013, Pages 407-416 Theresia Estomih Nkya, Idir Akhouayri, William Kisinza, Jean-Philippe David   Posted on 11 April 2013 Diversity of mitochondrial genome structure in the phylum Apicomplexa Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 188, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 26-33 Kenji Hikosaka, Kiyoshi Kita, Kazuyuki Tanabe   Posted on 11 April 2013 Identification of novel rhoptry neck protein of Plasmodium falciparum Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 188, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 34-39 Nidhi Hans, Shailja Singh, S.K. Jain, Virander S. Chauhan

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