The Encyclopaedia of Malaria is the most comprehensive reference work devoted to one of humanitys oldest and most persistent diseases. It captures the historical sweep of malarias impact while presenting the rapid and significant advances that continue to shape the field, from the sequencing of the Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae genomes to the latest developments in diagnostics, treatment, and control. Structured as authoritative essays written by leading experts with direct field and laboratory experience, this work distils the complexity of malaria research into a concise, accessible, and up-to-date resource. It covers the biology of parasite and vector, the clinical and epidemiological dimensions of disease, control efforts, and the evolving challenges of drug and insecticide resistance. Appealing to a broad audiencefrom malaria researchers, clinicians and biomedical scientists to teachers, students, and public health professionalsthis encyclopaedia is both a repository of knowledge and a guide to future discovery.
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Peter G. Kremsner, is a Professor and the Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Human Parasitology at the Universität Tübingen. From 1985 to 1987, Professor Kremsner gained his first professional experience at the Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Universität Wien. From 1988 to 1996, Professor Kremsner served as a group leader at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Berlin. Since 1992, Kremsner has worked in Lambaréné and has been the founding President of the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL) in Gabon. Professor Kremsner not only has close ties to CERMEL, but he is also networked worldwide, including the Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM) in Congo and the Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research (VG-CARE) in Vietnam.
Sanjeev Krishna is Professor (Emeritus) of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St Georges, University of London, where he was appointed to a personal Chair in 2000. He first became involved in malaria research as a medical student in Oxford in the early 1980s, including time at the then newly established Wellcome Trust Unit in Thailand. After completing postgraduate clinical training, he obtained a DPhil in 1990 on cation ATPases of Plasmodium falciparum. His subsequent career has combined laboratory and clinical research on malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, with contributions that have shaped the understanding of severe malaria, particularly lactic acidosis and hypoglycaemia, and improved antimalarial treatment regimens. His laboratorys work on parasite transporters identified druggable targets such as the hexose transporter and cation ATPases and helped define mechanisms of resistance by characterising the role of Pfmdr1.
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