MALARIA: Weekly Update from Malaria Nexus: September 6th, 2013

Posted on 06 September 2013 No increased risk of malaria for iron supplement usage A clinical trial recently published in JAMA shows that the use of iron supplements does not result in increased incidence of malaria.   Posted on 06 September 2013 Four additional journals now available on Malaria Nexus! Malaria Nexus celebrates its third anniversary by incorporating four additional pre-eminent journals to the webportal.   Feature Articles   Posted on 06 September 2013 Key molecular events during host cell invasion by Apicomplexan pathogens Current Opinion in Microbiology, Volume 16, Issue 4, August 2013, Pages 432-437 Pushkar Sharma, Chetan E Chitnis   Posted on 06 September 2013 Invasion factors of apicomplexan parasites: essential or redundant? Current Opinion in Microbiology, Volume 16, Issue 4, August 2013, Pages 438-444 Markus Meissner, David JP Ferguson, Freddy Frischknecht   Posted on 06 September 2013 A threshold concentration of anti-merozoite antibodies is required for protection from clinical episodes of malaria Vaccine, Volume 31, Issue 37, 20 August 2013, Pages 3936-3942 Linda M. Murungi, Gathoni Kamuyu, Brett Lowe, Philip Bejon, Michael Theisen, Samson M. Kinyanjui, Kevin Marsh, Faith H.A. Osier   Posted on 06 September 2013 Haplotypes associated with resistance to sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine in Plasmodium falciparum in two malaria endemic locations in Colombia Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Volume 18, August 2013, Pages 183-190 Diana Carolina Hernández, Angela Patricia Guerra, Zulma Milena Cucunubá, Ruben Santiago Nicholls, Sandra Milena Barrera

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