Malaria Control and Elimination in China

Chapter 1: Malaria Epidemiology in China: a Historical Review.- Chapter 2: A Fact Sheet on Malaria: Global Status and Significant Species.- Chapter 3: Malaria-free in China: A Story of more than 70 Years.- Chapter 4: Malaria Parasites: Species, Life Cycle and Morphology.- Chapter 5: Pathogenesis and Clinical Features of Malaria.- Chapter 6: Morphology of Malaria Parasites at the Erythrocytic Stage.- Chapter 7: Immunodiagonsis of Malaria.- Chapter 8: Molecular Basis of Malaria Pathogenesis.- Chapter 9: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Malaria Diagnosis.- Chapter 10: Current Treatments for Malaria.- Chapter 11: Artemisinin Resistance in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum.- Chapter 12: Traditional Chinese Medicines for Malaria Therapy.

Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn has retired from Düsseldorf University and was President of the German and World Societies of Parasitology and Protozoology. He has published 80 parasitology books and is currently chairman of a German company, which has developed products against parasites.

Prof. Dr. Jian Li, PhD, is Professor and Master supervisor. His research interests encompass the epidemiology of antimalarial drug resistance, multi-omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, immunomics, metabolomics, and the microbiome), the study of Plasmodium parasite- and schistosome parasitology, as well as rapid diagnosis using high throughput immunoscreening platforms and PCR-based tools and test strips.
Assoc. Prof. Kai Wu, Associate Professor, has been engaged in malaria control for approximately 20 years and has extensive experience in this respect in Wuhan City. He has handled nearly a thousand cases of malaria, is expert in microscopic examination of Plasmodium, malaria epidemiology including at molecular level, epidemic situation disposal, and antimalarial treatment plans. He has established a specimen bank of Plasmodium since 2010 including four human malaria parasites from more than 600 cases which provide rich morphological pictures. He has edited two medical monographs and published more than 20 papers related to malaria.