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| Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness | Life Sciences | Malaria; Infectious Disease Surveillance |
As malaria transmission continues to decline, even the most sensitive methods for determining prevalence via detection of the parasite become inefficient for risk stratification and informing programmatic interventions. In addition, the need to identify individuals at risk of Plasmodium vivax relapse from hypnozoites increases.
Validated markers of recent exposure to Plasmodium spp. may be able to play an important role, particularly rapidly advancing technologies for quantitative point-of-care testing.
By applying novel validated serological markers of exposure and novel validated molecular markers capable of detecting ultra-low-density Plasmodium infections to well-characterised existing sample sets, we aim to validate and establish the public health utility of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax molecular and serosurveillance assays for identifying hidden reservoirs of infections in Papua New Guinea.
Contact
Professor Leanne Robinson
Group Leader, Vector-Borne Diseases and Tropical Public Health; Program Director, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness; Senior Principal Research Fellow
leanne.robinson@burnet.edu.au
Dr Fiona Angrisano
Senior Research Officer
fiona.angrisano@burnet.edu.au
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