CLOSED: Job: Entomologist Malaria Study DRC
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Organisation: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Duration: 4 to 6 months
Apply: before Sunday December 2 2012
DRC
CLOSED: Job: Chief of Party, Malaria, DRC
Organisation: PSI
Department: West and Central Africa
Date: August 2012
Quantification of the Burden and Consequences of Pregnancy-Associated Malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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J Infect Dis. (2011) 204 (11): 1762-1771.
We assessed the prevalence of malaria using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and estimated the consequences of infection on birth outcomes, using specimens from a nationally representative sample of 4570 women of childbearing age (WOCBA) responding to the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Open Access | Genetic polymorphism of merozoite surface protein-1 and merozoite surface protein-2 in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
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Malaria Journal 2011, 10:276 (22 September 2011)
Polymorphism in P. falciparum clinical isolates from Brazzaville was high and mainly of multiple clones.
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Open Access | Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin following oral treatment in pregnant women with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections in Kinshasa DRC
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Malaria Journal 2011, 10:49 (28 February 2011)
A single dose of orally administered AS was found to be both effective and without adverse effects in this study of second and third trimester pregnant women in the DRC.
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