Malaria Nexus: Weekly Update June 15 2013

Latest News   Posted on 13 June 2013 Discovery of a new parasite-sensing mechanism that activates the innate and adaptive immune responses elicited by Plasmodium An article published in the latest issue of Nature Medicine describes the role of uric acid and Flt3l, the Flt3 receptor tyrosine kinase ligand, in the activation of dendritic cells and T-cell responses during Plasmodium infection   Posted on 11 June 2013 Registration deadline for the 24th Annual Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) is approaching soon! The MPM will be held this year from September 8 to 12 in Woods Hole, MA, USA. The registration deadline for abstract submission is June 17.   Feature Articles   Posted on 12 June 2013 Transitioning from malaria control to elimination: the vital role of ACTs Trends in Parasitology, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 60-64 Heiner Grueninger, Kamal Hamed   Posted on 12 June 2013 Paediatric malaria in Greece in the era of global population mobility Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 11, Issue 3, May–June 2013, Pages 178-180 Helena C. Maltezou, Maria Tsolia, Ioannis Polymerou, Maria Theodoridou   Posted on 12 June 2013 Falcipain-2 inhibition by suramin and suramin analogues Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 21, Issue 13, 1 July 2013, Pages 3667-3673 Adriana Fonseca Marques, Daniel Esser, Philip J. Rosenthal, Matthias U. Kassack, Luis Mauricio T.R. Lima   Posted on 12 June 2013 Functional analysis of the 5′ untranslated region of the phosphoglutamase 2 transcript in Plasmodium falciparum Acta Tropica, Volume 127, Issue 1, July 2013, Pages 69-74 Sandra Hasenkamp, Karen Russell, Imran Ullah, Paul Horrocks

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