Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage, emergence, clearance and population sex ratios in anaemic and non-anaemic malarious children Grace Olusola Gbotosho; Akintunde Sowunmi, ; Titilope Modupe Okuboyejo; Christian Tientcha Happi; Obaro Stanley Michael; Onikepe Abiola Folarin; Elsie Olufunke Adewoye PAGE: 562-569 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500008

Susceptibility of Anopheles campestris-like and Anopheles barbirostris species complexes to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in Thailand Sorawat Thongsahuan; Visut Baimai; Anuluck Junkum; Atiporn Saeung; Gi-Sik Min; Deepak Joshi; Mi-Hyun Park; Pradya Somboon; Wannapa Suwonkerd; Pongsri Tippawangkosol; Narissara Jariyapan; Wej Choochote PAGE: 105-112 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100017

Improving the production of the denatured recombinant N-terminal domain of rhoptry-associated protein 2 from a Plasmodium falciparum target in the pathology of anemia in falciparum malaria Luis Andre Mariuba; Patricia Puccinelli Orlandi; Márcia Medeiros; Rudson Holanda; Andrea Grava; Paulo Afonso Nogueira PAGE: 522-527 | DOI: S0074-02762008000600002

Effect of Solanum nudum steroids on uninfected and Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes Mary Luz López; Silvia Blair; Jairo Sáez; Cesar Segura PAGE: 683-688 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000500003

Microsatellite characterization of Plasmodium falciparum from symptomatic and non-symptomatic infections from the Western Amazon reveals the existence of non-symptomatic infection-associated genotypes Rosimeire Cristina dalla Martha; Mauro Sughiro Tada; Ricardo Godoi de Mattos Ferreira; Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva; Gerhard Wunderlich PAGE: 293-298 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000044

Vector bionomics and malaria transmission in the Upper Orinoco River, Southern Venezuela Magda Magris; Yasmin Rubio-Palis; Cristóbal Menares; Leopoldo Villegas PAGE: 303-312 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000049

Effect of fosmidomycin on metabolic and transcript profiles of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway in Plasmodium falciparum María B Cassera; Emilio F Merino; Valnice J Peres; Emilia A Kimura; Gerhard Wunderlich; Alejandro M Katzin PAGE: 377-384 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000300019

Anti-malaria humoral responses in children exposed to Plasmodium falciparum and Schistosoma haematobium F Mutapi; C Roussilhon; T Mduluza; P Druilhe PAGE: 405-410 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000046

Merozoite surface protein 2 allelic variation influences the specific antibody response during acute malaria in individuals from a Brazilian endemic area Selma Sallenave-Sales; Clarissa Perez Faria; Mariano Gustavo Zalis; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 421-425 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000048

Antibodies against the Plasmodium falciparum glutamate-rich protein from naturally exposed individuals living in a Brazilian malaria-endemic area can inhibit in vitro parasite growth Lilian Rose Pratt-Riccio; Cesare Bianco-Junior; Paulo Renato Rivas Totino; Daiana De Souza Perce-Da-Silva; Luciene Aquino Silva; Evelyn Kety Pratt Riccio; Vítor Ennes-Vidal; Ana Gisele Costa Neves-Ferreira; Jonas Perales; Surza Lucia Gonçalves Da Rocha; Fabrício Dias-Da-Silva; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Joseli De Oliveira-Ferreira; Michael Theisen; Leonardo José De Moura Carvalho; Dalma Maria Banic PAGE: 34-43 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900005

Monoclonal auto-antibodies and sera of autoimmune patients react with Plasmodium falciparum and inhibit its in vitro growth Karima Brahimi; Yuri Chaves Martins; Graziela Maria Zanini; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 44-51 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900006

Pregnancy malaria: cryptic disease, apparent solution Patrick Emmet Duffy; Michal Fried PAGE: 64-69 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900008

Malaria-related anaemia: a Latin American perspective Juan Pablo Quintero; André Machado Siqueira; Alberto Tobón; Silvia Blair; Alberto Moreno; Myriam Arévalo-Herrera; Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Sócrates Herrera Valencia PAGE: 91-104 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900012

Epidemiology and control of malaria in Colombia Julio Cesar Padilla Rodríguez; Gilberto Álvarez Uribe; Roberto Montoya Araújo; Pablo Chaparro Narváez; Sócrates Herrera Valencia PAGE: 114-122 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900015

Isoprenoid biosynthesis in the erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum Fabiana Morandi Jordão; Emília Akemi Kimura; Alejandro Miguel Katzin PAGE: 134-141 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900018

Chemoresistance of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasites in Brazil: consequences on disease morbidity and control Bianca Ervatti Gama; Marcus Vinicius Guimarães Lacerda; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 159-166 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900020

Synergism/complementarity of recombinant adenoviral vectors and other vaccination platforms during induction of protective immunity against malaria Ana Paula Morais Martins Almeida; Oscar Bruna-Romero PAGE: 193-201 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900024

Thrombocytopenia in malaria: who cares? Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Maria Paula Gomes Mourão; Helena Cristina Cardoso Coelho; João Barberino Santos PAGE: 52-63 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900007

New approaches in antimalarial drug discovery and development - A Review Anna Caroline C Aguiar; Eliana MM da Rocha; Nicolli B de Souza; Tanos CC França; Antoniana U Krettli PAGE: 831-845 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700001

Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Osogbo Nigeria: efficacy of amodiaquine + sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chloroquine + chlorpheniramine for treatment TO Ogungbamigbe; O Ojurongbe; PS Ogunro; BM Okanlawon; SO Kolawole PAGE: 79-84 | DOI: S0074-02762008000100012

In vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity and cytotoxicity of extracts, fractions and a substance isolated from the Amazonian plant Tachia grandiflora (Gentianaceae) Luiz Francisco Rocha e Silva, Emerson Silva Lima, Marne Carvalho de Vasconcellos, Ellen Suzany Pereira Aranha, David Siqueira Costa, Elba Vieira Mustafa, Sabrina Kelly Reis de Morais, Maria das Graças Costa Alecrim, Sergio Massayoshi Nunomura,Lena Struwe, Valter Ferreira de Andrade-Neto6, Adrian Martin Pohlit PAGE: 501-507 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108042013017

Genetic polymorphisms in the glutamate-rich protein of Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from a malaria-endemic area of Brazil Lilian Rose Pratt-Riccio, Daiana de Souza Perce-da-Silva, Josué da Costa Lima-Junior, Michael Theisen, Fátima Santos, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Joseli de Oliveira-Ferreira, Dalma Maria Banic PAGE: 523-528 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108042013022

Asymptomatic infection in individuals from the municipality of Barcelos (Brazilian Amazon) is not associated with the anti-Plasmodium falciparum glycosylphosphatidylinositol antibody response Larissa Rodrigues Gomes, Paulo Renato Rivas Totino, Maria Carmen Arroyo Sanchez, Elsa Paula da Silva Kaingona Daniel, Cristiana Santos de Macedo, Filomeno Fortes, José Rodrigues Coura, Silvia Maria Di Santi, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck,Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108062013018

Sequence analysis of coding DNA fragments of pfcrt and pfmdr-1 genes in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Odisha, India Sasmita Kumari Das Sutar; Bhavna Gupta; Manoranjan Ranjit; Shantanu Kumar Kar; Aparup Das PAGE: 78-84 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100013

Pfcrt and pfmdr1 Alleles Associated with Chloroquine Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum from Guyana, South America Wallis Best Plummer, Lexley M Pinto Pereira, Christine VF Carrington PAGE: 389-392

Stage-specific Activity of Potential Antimalarial Compounds Measured in Vitro by Flow Cytometry in Comparison to Optical Microscopy and Hypoxanthine Uptake Carmen E Contreras, María A Rivas, José Domínguez*, Jaime Charris*, Mario Palacios, Nicolás E Bianco, Isaac Blanca PAGE: 179-184

Malaria during Pregnancy in a Reference Centre from the Brazilian Amazon: Unexpected Increase in the Frequency of Plasmodium falciparum Infections Flor Ernestina Martínez-Espinosa, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Wilson Duarte Alecrim PAGE: 19-21

Genetic polymorphism of the serine rich antigen N-terminal region in Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from Brazil Evelyn Kety Pratt Riccio, Mariano Gustavo Zalis,Helena Cristina Balthazar Guedes, Dalma Maria Banic, José Maria de Souza, Wilson Alecrim, Daniel Camus,Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro,Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 47-49

Evidence of an increased incidence of day 3 parasitaemia in Suriname: an indicator of the emerging resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to artemether Stephen GS Vreden, Jeetendra K Jitan, Rakesh D Bansie, Malti R Adhin PAGE: 968-973 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130167

Aspidosperma (Apocynaceae) plant cytotoxicity and activity towards malaria parasites. Part I: Aspidosperma nitidum (Benth)used as a remedy to treat fever and malaria in the Amazon Julia Penna Coutinho, Anna Caroline Campos Aguiar, Pierre Alexandre dos Santos, Joaquim Corsino Lima, Maria Gabrielle Lima Rocha, Carlos Leomar Zani, Tânia Maria Almeida Alves, Antônio Euzébio Goulart Santana, Maria de Meneses Pereira, Antoniana Ursine Krettli PAGE: 974-922 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130246

First published record of urban malaria in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, Colombia Luz Stella Buitrago, Helena Luisa Brochero, Sascha N McKeon, William Lainhart, Jan E Conn PAGE: 1045-1050 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130217

Severe Anemia Affects Both Splenectomized and Non-splenectomized Plasmodium falciparum-infected Aotus infulatus Monkeys Leonardo J de Moura Carvalho, Francisco Acácio Alves, Salma Gomes de Oliveira, Rodrigo del Rio do Valle, Andréa A Morais Fernandes, José A Pereira Carneiro Muniz, Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 679-686

Effects of Chloroquine and Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine on Gametocytes in Patients with Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Colombia Lyda Osorio*, Beatriz E Ferro, Carmen M Castillo PAGE: 1221-1223

Time Course of in Vitro Maturation of Intra-erythrocytic Malaria Parasite: a Comparison between Plasmodium falciparum and& SD Srinivas, SK Puri PAGE: 901-903

Assessment of Therapeutic Response of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum to Chloroquine in a Malaria Transmission Free Area in Colombia Carmen Manuela Castillo, Lyda Elena Osorio, Gloria Inés Palma PAGE: 559-562

Effect of Antimalarial Drugs on Plasmodia Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Ana Ferreras, Ledia Triana, Erlinda Sánchez, Flor Herrera PAGE: 377-380

Resistance of Plamodium falciparum to Antimalarial Drugs in Zaragoza (Antioquia, Colombia), 1998 Silvia Blair-Trujillo, Leidy Lacharme-Lora, Jaime Carmona-Fonseca PAGE: 401-406

The Search for New Antimalarial Drugs from Plants Used to Treat Fever and Malaria or Plants Ramdomly Selected: a Review Antoniana U Krettli, Valter F Andrade-Neto, Maria das Graças L Brandão, Wanêssa MS Ferrari PAGE: 1033-1042

Genome Comparison of Progressively Drug Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Lines Derived from Drug Sensitive Clone Ravi Toteja, Lathika Nair, VK Bhasin PAGE: 427-433

Mutations in Plasmodium falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase and Dihydropteroate Synthase of Isolates from the Amazon Region of Brazil KF Vasconcelos, CV Plowe, CJ Fontes, D Kyle, DF Wirth,LH Pereira da Silva, MG Zalis PAGE: 721-728

A GBP 130 Derived Peptide from Plasmodium falciparum Binds to Human Erythrocytes and Inhibits Merozoite Invasion in Vitro Jorge E Suarez, Mauricio Urquiza, Hernando Curtidor, Luis E Rodriguez, Marisol Ocampo, Elizabeth Torres, Fanny Guzman, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo PAGE: 495-501

Isolation and Identification of Actin-binding Proteins in Plasmodium falciparum by Affinity Chromatography Claudia Forero, Moisés Wasserman PAGE: 329-337

Aotus infulatus Monkey is Susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum Infection and May Constitute an Alternative Experimental Model for Malaria Leonardo JM Carvalho, Salma G Oliveira, Francisco A Alves,Maria CO Brígido, José APC Muniz, Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 363-365

Malaria Control in an Agro-industrial Settlement of Rondônia (Western Amazon Region, Brazil) Juan Miguel Villalobos Salcedo, Erney Plessmann Camargo, Henrique Krieger, Luiz H Pereira da Silva, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo PAGE: 139-145

An in Vitro System from Plasmodium falciparum Active in Endogenous mRNA Translation Ana Ferreras, Ledia Triana, Heriberto Correia, Erlinda Sánchez, Flor Herrera PAGE: 231-235

Antimalarial Drug Susceptibility Testing of Plasmodium falciparum in Brazil Using a Radioisotope Method Crispim Cerutti Junior, Christiane Marques, Filomena EC de Alencar, Rui Rafael Durlacher, Anna Alween, Aluísio AC Segurado, Lorrin W Pang, Mariano G Zalis PAGE: 803-809

Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: Rosettes are Disrupted by Quinine, Artemisinin, Mefloquine, Primaquine, Pyrimethamine, Chloroquine and Proguanil JP Dean Goldring, Thanugarani Padayachee, Imraan Ismail PAGE: 667-674

Increase of a Calcium Independent Transglutaminase Activity in the Erythrocyte during the Infection with Plasmodium falciparum Moisés Wasserman, Ana Mercedes Márquez, Mauricio Urquiza, Patricia Jiménez PAGE: 95-100

Allelic Diversity at the Merozoite Surface Protein-1 (MSP-1) Locus in Natural Plasmodium falciparum Populations: a Brief Overview Marcelo U Ferreira, Osamu Kaneko, Masatsugu Kimura, Qing Liu, Fumihiko Kawamoto, Kazuyuki Tanabe PAGE: 631-638

Evaluation of DNA Recombinant Methodologies for the Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum and their Comparison with the Microscopy Assay L Urdaneta, P Guevara, JL Ramirez PAGE: 639-646

Structure of the Knob Protein Gene of the Saimiri Monkey-adapted Palo Alto Strain of Plasmodium falciparum Wanda Chalvet, Jean-François Pouliquen, Thierry Fandeur PAGE: 243-246

Identification of Novel Membrane Structures in Plasmodium falciparum Infected Erythrocytes Carlos A Clavijo, Carlos A Mora, Enrique Winograd PAGE: 115-120

Diagnosis of Malaria by Acridine Orange Fluorescent Microscopy in an Endemic Area of Venezuela Irene Bosch, Carmen Bracho, Hilda A Pérez PAGE: 83-86

A four-year surveillance program for detection of Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance in Honduras Gustavo A Fontecha, Ana L Sanchez, Meisy Mendoza, Engels Banegas, Rosa E Mejía-Torres PAGE: 492-493 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140067

Antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cells by symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals in the Brazilian Amazon Alessandra Sampaio Bassi Fratus, Fernanda Janku Cabral, Wesley Luzetti Fotoran, Márcia Melo Medeiros, Bianca Cechetto Carlos, Rosimeire dalla Martha, Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes, Fabio Trindade Maranhão Costa, Gerhard Wunderlich PAGE: 598-607 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140027

Influence of age on the haemoglobin concentration of malaria-infected patients in a reference centre in the Brazilian Amazon Andre M Siqueira, Janieldo A Cavalcante, Shelia Vítor-Silva, Roberto C Reyes-Lecca, Aline C Alencar, Wuelton M Monteiro, Márcia AA Alexandre, Maria Paula G Mourão, Caterina Guinovart, Quique Bassat, Maria das Graças C Alecrim, Marcus VG Lacerda PAGE: 569-576 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140132

The remarkable journey of adaptation of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite to New World anopheline mosquitoes Alvaro Molina-Cruz, Carolina Barillas-Mury PAGE: 662-667 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130553

Blood shizonticidal activities of phenazines and naphthoquinoidal compounds against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and in mice malaria studies Nicolli Bellotti de Souza, Isabel M de Andrade, Paula F Carneiro, Guilherme AM Jardim, Isadora MM de Melo, Eufrânio N da Silva Júnior, Antoniana Ursine Krettli PAGE: 546-552 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130603

Compositional Constraints in the Extremely GC-poor Genome of Plasmodium falciparum Héctor Musto , Simone Cacciò, Helena Rodríguez-Maseda, Giorgio Bernardi PAGE: 835-841

Inactivation of Plasmodium falciparum Parasites Using g-irradiation Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz, Antonio Teva, Erika da Cruz Espindola-Mendes, Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 137-138

In Vitro Responses of Plasmodium falciparum Isolates to Five Antimalaria Drugs in French Guiana during 1994 and 1995 Jean-Marc Reynes , Josiane Fargette, Pascal Gaborit,Steve Yarde PAGE: 251-252

Antiplasmodial activity of iron(II) and ruthenium(II) organometallic complexes against Plasmodium falciparum blood parasites Nicolli Bellotti de Souza, Anna Caroline Campos Aguiar, Alane Cabral de Oliveira, Siden Top, Pascal Pigeon, Gérard Jaouen, Marilia Oliveira Fonseca Goulart, Antoniana Ursine Krettli PAGE: 981-988 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150163

Malaria in gold-mining areas in Colombia Angélica Castellanos, Pablo Chaparro-Narváez, Cristhian David Morales-Plaza, Alberto Alzate, Julio Padilla, Myriam Arévalo, Sócrates Herrera PAGE: 59-66 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150382

Mitochondrial genome sequence diversity of Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates Suchi Tyagi, Veena Pande, Aparup Das PAGE: 494-498 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130531

Successful application of virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations against antimalarial molecular targets Renata Rachide Nunes, Marina dos Santos Costa, Bianca dos Reis Santos, Amanda Luisa da Fonseca, Lorena Sales Ferreira, Rafael Cesar Russo Chagas, Alisson Marques da Silva, Fernando de Pilla Varotti, Alex Gutterres Taranto PAGE: 721-730 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160207

Insights into cytochrome bc1 complex binding mode of antimalarial 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones through molecular modelling Ana Carolina Rennó Sodero, Bárbara Abrahim-Vieira, Pedro Henrique Monteiro Torres, Pedro Geraldo Pascutti, Célia RS Garcia, Vitor Francisco Ferreira, David Rodrigues da Rocha, Sabrina Baptista Ferreira, Floriano Paes Silva-Jr PAGE: 299-308 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160417

Immunoproteomics of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cell membrane fractions Fernanda J Cabral, Luciana G Vianna, Marcia M Medeiros, Bianca Cechetto Carlos, Rosimeire D Martha, Nadia Maria Silva, Luiz Hildebrando P da Silva, Rodrigo G Stabeli, Gerhard Wunderlich PAGE: 850-856 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170041

Synthesis and molecular modelling studies of pyrimidinones and pyrrolo[3,4-d]-pyrimidinodiones as new antiplasmodial compounds Kamilla Rodrigues Rogerio, Leonardo J M Carvalho, Luiza Helena Pinto Domingues, Bruno Junior Neves, José Teófilo Moreira Filho, Rosane Nora Castro Cesare Bianco Júnior, Claudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Carolina Horta Andrade, Cedric Stephan Graebin DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170452

Structural insights into Plasmodium falciparum nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase: oligomeric assembly Luis Ernesto Contreras-Rodríguez, Catherin Yizet Marin-Mogollon, Lina Marcela Sánchez-Mejía, María Helena Ramírez-Hernández DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180073

Commercial drugs containing flavonoids are active in mice with malaria and in vitro against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum Julia Penna-Coutinho, Anna CC Aguiar, Antoniana Ursine Krettli DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180279

Overview of artemisinin effectiveness during outset years of its implementation in the western Brazilian Amazon Raquel de Medeiros Pinto, Vanderson de Souza Sampaio, Gisely Cardoso de Melo, Maria das Graças Costa Alecrim, Karine Mattos, Renata Trentin Perdomo, Sabrine da Costa Cordeiro, Ana Flávia Alves Parente, Lídia Raquel de Carvalho, Rinaldo Pôncio Mendes, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Simone Schneider Weber DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190075