Malaria infection

Director

Institution Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital - Wellcome Trust Research Unit

Vientiane

Laos

Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor of Tropical Medicine

University of Oxford

Oxford

UK

Disclosures

EA has active grants from a number of organizations; however, none of them are for malaria projects. EA is an associate editor of Malaria Journal, an academic editor for PLOS Medicine, and is on the Lancet Infectious Diseases International Advisory Board. EA is on the council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and was paid by Pfizer to chair a grants committee on antimicrobial stewardship (unrelated to malaria). The Institution Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital - Wellcome Trust Research Unit receives core funding from the Wellcome Trust. EA is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Fellow

Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health

University of Oxford

Oxford

Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

London

UK

Disclosures

None.

Dr Elizabeth Ashley and Dr Arjun Chandna would like to gratefully acknowledge Professor Ron Behrens, Mariyam Mirfenderesky, Dr Signe Maj Sorensen, Dr Joanna Allen, Dr Simon Warren, and Dr Behzad Nadjm, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

RB acted as a paid expert to the courts on malaria prophylaxis. RB received fees on the Travel Health advisory board for Emergent BioSolutions. RB prepared education material for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. RB is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. MM, SMS, JA, and SW declare that they have no competing interests. BN is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Professor

Head of the Travel Clinic

Consultant of Tropical and Travel Medicine

University Hospital

Project Leader

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Basel

Switzerland

Disclosures

BG has received a research grant from Novartis Pharma to assess the impact of the introduction of artemether-lumefantrine (Novartis) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria on mortality of children under 5 years old in 2 districts in Tanzania and travel grants from Novartis Pharma to present the results of the study above. BG is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Associate Professor

Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

DS has received royalties from antigen provision for a diagnostic test to Inverness. DS with Johns Hopkins University has patents on diagnostic tests that do not require blood.

Professor

Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine

Medical University of Vienna

Vienna

Austria

Disclosures

WHW declares that he has no competing interests.