Bernhards Ogutu

TL;DR: Children infected with Plasmodium falciparum malaria exhibited important changes in some haematological parameters with low platelet count and haemoglobin concentration being the two most important predictors of malaria infection in children in the study area.

TL;DR: The goal of the Malaria Vaccine Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is to develop a licensed multi-antigen, multi-stage vaccine able to prevent all symptomatic manifestations of malaria by preventing parasitemia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the provision of paediatric care in government district hospitals in Kenya and surveyed 14 first-referral level hospitals from seven of Kenya's eight provinces and obtained data for workload, outcome of admission, infrastructure, and resources and the views of hospital staff and caretakers of admitted children.

TL;DR: This pilot study has demonstrated for the first time that NAI may impact on PMR post-CHMI in a detectable fashion and could be used to assess the efficacy of malaria vaccines and drugs in African populations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a randomized human malaria infection (CHMI) study in which healthy volunteers are infected with Plasmodium falciparum to assess the efficacy of novel malaria vaccines and drugs.