Just 25 years ago, Suriname, the smallest country in South America, had the continent’s highest malaria rates. Now it has ...

The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an analysis of the genome ...

Plasmodium falciparum causes malaria in humans by multiplying first in the liver cells and then in red blood cells. Merozoites or daughter parasites are released as the host cells are destroyed to ...

Record heat, rising travel and weakened mosquito control created the ideal conditions for malaria’s U.S. comeback.

Malaria continues to spread rapidly across Hyderabad and its surrounding nine districts, fueled by poor sanitation and ...

When a person is bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito, sporozoites of malarial parasites are injected into the blood stream. Inside the blood, the sporozoites circulate before entering the ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

Drug repurposing screens reveal several epigenetic inhibitors as active against P. vivax hypnozoites demonstrating that epigenetic pathways play a central role in hypnozoite quiescence.

Calcium is essential for the correct functioning of the cell and requires regulation to avoid high concentrations causing cell death. Calcium ions are important for cell signaling as the binding of ...

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species, whose transmission to vertebrate hosts is facilitated by mosquito vectors. The transition from the cold blooded mosquito vector to the host represents ...

The pathogenicity of Plasmodium falciparum results from its unique ability to adhere to endothelium and uninfected erythrocytes. It is, therefore, important to understand the events leading to flowing ...