Malaria: Updates on Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Parasitic Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 99
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious diseases; tropical diseases; viruses; pyrexia of unknown origin
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2. Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: vector-borne infectious diseases; neglected tropical diseases; emerging infectious diseases; malaria; dengue; arboviruses; epidemiology; immunology; diagnostics; vaccine development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Malaria continues to have a devastating global health burden, being responsible for 263 million cases and 597,000 deaths in 2023, across 83 countries. This is likely to continue for the foreseeable future unless further preventative strategies are implemented. Progress is being made: the forwarding by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in October 2021 of the first vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria as well as developments in monoclonal antibodies for malaria prevention show this. However, therapeutic strategies are being threatened by the emergence of partial artemisinin resistance in certain parts of the world including South America, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore and further expand our understanding of the evolving epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of malaria (all species), as well as to report on novel developments in its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. A range of studies, including case reports and series, cohort and case–control studies, narrative reviews, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses, are welcome.
Dr. Temi Lampejo
Prof. Dr. Andrew Taylor-Robinson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- malaria
- plasmodium
- prevention
- vaccines
- therapeutics
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