24/09/2021. Plasmodium vivax in SE Asia and Oceania is less sensitive to primaquine compared to other regions and needs a higher target dose - 0.5 mg/kg. Bob Taylor and colleagues propose a new regimen that was designed using pharmacokinetic simulation and takes into account that children need higher mg/kg doses compared to adults.

Posted 22/09/2021. Kelvin Mokaya, Sarah Atkinson and colleagues found that children with severe malaria anaemia have higher risk of non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteraemia, and lower levels of the iron-regulating hormone, hepcidin (even with Salmonella coinfection) compared to other forms of malaria. Reduced hepcidin may increase iron availability for bacterial growth in the Salmonella-containing vacuole.

Posted 21/09/2021. The WHO's ‘5 moments’ is the dominant paradigm for hand hygiene globally. While ‘5 moments' has many benefits and has had a significant clinical impact, it also has many weaknesses. Jacob McKnight and colleagues explore how this important paradigm can be improved to reflect the latest research in hand hygiene.

Posted 17/09/2021. One of the policies to achieve malaria elimination in the near future is reactive case detection. A secondary analysis of a large dataset of mass drug administrations in Greater Mekong Subregion found that reactive case detection in this setting is costly but results only in minimal benefits, by Lorenz Von Seidlein and colleagues