ReviewMalaria journal2014
The duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections.
Review in Malaria journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
93 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Airport and luggage (Odyssean) malaria in Europe: a systematic review.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Ivermectin treatment in humans for reducing malaria transmission.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Alternative transmission routes in the malaria elimination era: an overview of transfusion-transmitted malaria in the Americas.Malaria journal · 2017Pooled it
- Mass drug administration for the acceleration of malaria elimination in a region of Myanmar with artemisinin-resistant falciparum malaria: a cluster-randomised trial.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2021Trial
- Impact of Community-Based Mass Testing and Treatment on Malaria Infection Prevalence in a High-Transmission Area of Western Kenya: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Trial
- Dynamics of Afebrile Plasmodium falciparum Infections in Mozambican Men.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018Trial
- Long-Acting Antimalarial Drug Delivery Systems for Chemoprophylaxis: Formulation Strategies and Routes of Administration.Pharmaceutical research · 2026Review
- From multiplicity of infection to force of infection in sparsely sampled high-transmissioneLife · 2026Article
- Mechanistic insights into subclinicaliScience · 2026Review
- Modelling the temporal dynamics of Microsporidia MB prevalence in Anopheles mosquitoes under environmental variability.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mechanistic insights into coordinated var transcriptional switching in malaria parasites.The EMBO journal · 2026Article
- Plasmodium falciparum infections and number needed to screen among refugees arriving from sub-Saharan Africa.Journal of travel medicine · 2026Article
- VAR2CSA-reactive IgG in Brazilian women exposed toInfection and immunity · 2025Article
- Methylene blue treatment of fatal cerebral malaria and identification of potential blood biomarkers.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Burden of asymptomatic malaria in adult sub-Saharan migrants attending an outpatient clinic in Rome from February 2024 to January 2025.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
- Clinical Findings in Migrants With AsymptomaticOpen forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Asymptomatic school children and adults are important for the human infectious reservoir for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in an area of low endemicity in The Gambia.The Journal of infection · 2025Observational
- scRNA-seq reveals transcriptional plasticity of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum for host immune avoidance.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Article
- Variable surface antigen expression, virulence, and persistent infection byMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025Review
33 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale are often considered the malaria parasites best adapted to long-term survival in the human host because of their latent exo-erythrocytic forms. The prevailing opinion until the middle of the last century was that the maximum duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections was less than two years. Case reports and series investigating blood donors following accidental malaria infection of blood transfusion recipients and other sporadic malaria cases in non-endemic countries have shown clearly that asymptomatic P. falciparum infections may persist for up to a decade or longer (maximum confirmed 13 years). Current policies in malaria-free countries of excluding blood donors who have lived in malarious areas are justified. Vigilance for longer than three years after declaring elimination in an area may be needed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.