Malaria is one of the most prevalent parasitic infections caused by Plasmodium sps. with high morbidity and mortality in tropical and subtropical countries. The disease affected 241 million people globally and 6,27,000 deaths in 2020 increasing from 229 million cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019 (WHO, 2021). Malaria posed a huge socio-economic impact on our globe and its eradication has been a world health priority. The disease burden has reduced significantly over the past decade due to strategic prevention and control practices. However, malaria control and elimination efforts are at risk by the emergence of multidrug resistant parasite strains, insecticide resistant vectors and climatic changes affecting vector population and transmission dynamics. In the fight against malaria, we have reached a crucial point where we need to accelerate the control measures by developing new tools and concerted efforts for effective management. The current research topic will consider recent breakthroughs and challenges in malaria research and proposes (but not limited) to:
1) Omics approaches towards understanding malaria parasite biology
2) Pathogenesis and immunology of malaria
3) Advances in antimalarial drug discovery- Natural products, structure-based, nanoparticles-based therapeutics
4) Malaria chemotherapy and genetics of antimalarial drug resistance and strategies to circumvent antimalarial resistance
5) Assessing Host-parasite interactions
6) Recent advances in vaccine research
7) Malaria vector control- transmission dynamics and insecticide resistance
8) Threats to malaria control and elimination
We welcome malaria researchers to contribute to this Research Topic with Research Articles, Review Articles, Methods, Hypothesis and Theory.
Malaria is one of the most prevalent parasitic infections caused by Plasmodium sps. with high morbidity and mortality in tropical and subtropical countries. The disease affected 241 million people globally and 6,27,000 deaths in 2020 increasing from 229 million cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019 (WHO, 2021). Malaria posed a huge socio-economic impact on our globe and its eradication has been a world health priority. The disease burden has reduced significantly over the past decade due to strategic prevention and control practices. However, malaria control and elimination efforts are at risk by the emergence of multidrug resistant parasite strains, insecticide resistant vectors and climatic changes affecting vector population and transmission dynamics. In the fight against malaria, we have reached a crucial point where we need to accelerate the control measures by developing new tools and concerted efforts for effective management. The current research topic will consider recent breakthroughs and challenges in malaria research and proposes (but not limited) to:
1) Omics approaches towards understanding malaria parasite biology
2) Pathogenesis and immunology of malaria
3) Advances in antimalarial drug discovery- Natural products, structure-based, nanoparticles-based therapeutics
4) Malaria chemotherapy and genetics of antimalarial drug resistance and strategies to circumvent antimalarial resistance
5) Assessing Host-parasite interactions
6) Recent advances in vaccine research
7) Malaria vector control- transmission dynamics and insecticide resistance
8) Threats to malaria control and elimination
We welcome malaria researchers to contribute to this Research Topic with Research Articles, Review Articles, Methods, Hypothesis and Theory.