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Mrs Marta Moreno Leirana

Assistant Professor

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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Affiliations
Department of Infection Biology
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching

2024: Module co-organizer 3176 Integrated Vector Management, LSHTM.

2019-2024: Supervisor MSc Control of Infectious Diseases Summer project, LSHTM.
2019- 2024 : Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice (Module 3195) (3 students). LSHTM
2017- Coordinator Workshop “Anopheles darlingi morphological identification and its relevance in malaria research”. May, 2017. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
2016- “Vectores de la Malaria: Importancia y Aplicación en los Planes de Manejo Vectorial”. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana. September 2016. Iquitos, Peru.
2014 -Blood meal detection in Anopheles darlingi. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2014 -Course “Certificado en Entomología Médica con Énfasis en la Vigilancia y Control de Vectores de Malaria y Dengue”. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2010- “Medical and Veterinary Entomology Course (BMS552)”. School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, USA.
2008- Workshop “Malaria in Misiones, Argentina: vector identification and transmission patterns of the disease” coordinated by Ministry of Health in Misiones Province (Argentina) and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain).
Universidad de Posadas, Argentina.
2005-2007 Teaching in Tropical Pediatric Diplome. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Coordinator and teaching in “Practical Course of Diagnostic in Tropical Diseases”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant in “Nursery in Tropical Pathology”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2006 Coordination and teaching in “Course of Malaria: clinical, research and control”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Research

Malaria vectors, Plasmodium transmission, Mosquito bionomics, Vector Borne Diseases

Research Area
Disease control
Insects
Protozoa
Vector control
Entomology
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Infectious diseases
Emerging infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Country
Burkina Faso
Gambia
Peru
Cape Verde
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications
Relative contribution of low-density and asymptomatic infections to Plasmodium vivax transmission in the Amazon: pooled analysis of individual participant data from population-based cross-sectional surveys.
Ferreira, MU; Corder, RM; Johansen, IC; Kattenberg, JH; Moreno, M; Rosas-Aguirre, A; Ladeia-Andrade, S; Conn, JE; Llanos-Cuentas, A; Gamboa, D; Rosanas-Urgell, A; Vinetz, JM;
2022
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Ecology and larval population dynamics of the primary malaria vector Nyssorhynchus darlingi in a high transmission setting dominated by fish farming in western Amazonian Brazil.
Rufalco-Moutinho, P; Moura Kadri, S; Peres Alonso, D; Moreno, M; Carrasco-Escobar, G; Prussing, C; Gamboa, D; Vinetz, JM; Mureb Sallum, MA; Conn, JE; Martins Ribolla, PE;
2021
PLOS ONE
Infectivity of patent Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriers to mosquitoes: establishing capacity to investigate the infectious reservoir of malaria in a low-transmission setting in The Gambia.
Ahmad, A; Soumare, HM; Camara, MM; Jadama, L; Gaye, PM; Bittaye, H; BRADLEY, J; Achan, J; Bousema, T; D'ALESSANDRO, U; DRAKELEY, C; Moreno, M;
2021
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Integrating Parasitological and Entomological Observations to Understand Malaria Transmission in Riverine Villages in the Peruvian Amazon.
Rosas-Aguirre, A; Moreno, M; Moreno-Gutierrez, D; Llanos-Cuentas, A; Saavedra, M; Contreras-Mancilla, J; Barboza, J; Alava, F; Aguirre, K; Carrasco, G; Prussing, C; Vinetz, J; Conn, JE; Speybroeck, N; Gamboa, D;
2021
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Maintaining Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte infectivity during blood collection and transport for mosquito feeding assays in the field.
Soumare, HM; Guelbeogo, WM; Van de Vegte-Bolmer, M; Van Gemert, G-J; Soumanaba, Z; Ouedraogo, A; Ouattara, MS; Abdullahi, A; Jadama, L; Camara, MM; Gaye, PM; Mendy, M; Davis, N; Tiono, AB; D'ALESSANDRO, U; DRAKELEY, C; Bousema, T; Moreno, M; Collins, KA;
2021
Malaria journal
Temporal and Microspatial Heterogeneity in Transmission Dynamics of Coendemic Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum in Two Rural Cohort Populations in the Peruvian Amazon.
Rosas-Aguirre, A; Guzman-Guzman, M; Chuquiyauri, R; Moreno, M; Manrique, P; Ramirez, R; Carrasco-Escobar, G; Rodriguez, H; Speybroeck, N; Conn, JE; Gamboa, D; Vinetz, JM; Llanos-Cuentas, A;
2020
The Journal of infectious diseases
Higher risk of malaria transmission outdoors than indoors by Nyssorhynchus darlingi in riverine communities in the Peruvian Amazon.
Saavedra, MP; Conn, JE; Alava, F; Carrasco-Escobar, G; Prussing, C; Bickersmith, SA; Sangama, JL; Fernandez-Miñope, C; Guzman, M; Tong, C; Valderrama, C; Vinetz, JM; Gamboa, D; Moreno, M;
2019
Parasites & vectors
Brazil's first free-mating laboratory colony of Nyssorhynchus darlingi.
Araujo, MD S; Andrade, AO; Santos, NA C D; Pereira, DB; Costa, GD S; Paulo, PF M D; Rios, CT; Moreno, M; Pereira-da-Silva, LH; Medeiros, JF D;
2019
REVISTA DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE MEDICINA TROPICAL
Malaria vector species in Amazonian Peru co-occur in larval habitats but have distinct larval microbial communities.
Prussing, C; Saavedra, MP; Bickersmith, SA; Alava, F; Guzmán, M; Manrique, E; Carrasco-Escobar, G; Moreno, M; Gamboa, D; Vinetz, JM; Conn, JE;
2019
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Dual RNA-seq identifies human mucosal immunity protein Mucin-13 as a hallmark of Plasmodium exoerythrocytic infection.
LaMonte, GM; Orjuela-Sanchez, P; Calla, J; Wang, LT; Li, S; Swann, J; Cowell, AN; Zou, BY; Abdel-Haleem Mohamed, AM; Villa Galarce, ZH; Moreno, M; Tong Rios, C; Vinetz, JM; Lewis, N; Winzeler, EA;
2019
Nature Communications
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Marta Moreno Leirana

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom