Scientists already know that people with sickle cell traitare less likely to develop severe malaria. What has never been ...

CHENNAI: The malaria cases in the state dropped to 321 last year from 5,587 in 2015, and of 38 districts, 33 districts ...

Researchers test low-cost methylene blue and blood biomarkers to detect cerebral malaria early and reduce brain injury, ...

Unlike any structure found in human cells, the apicoplast is unique to apicomplexan parasites - a large group of single-celled organisms that includes Plasmodium, Toxoplasma gondii, and Babesia. This ...

Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its dispersal.

Comprehensive genetic mapping of Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic parasite that causes malaria, has revealed the genes required for malaria infection of the blood, and those driving drug resistance. By ...

Roger Casupang was working in a coastal clinic on the north side of Papua New Guinea, an island nation of 9 million in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, when a pregnant woman burst into his facility.

Malaria is a parasitic disease of human beings. It is transmitted in 108 countries, in total affecting around 3 billion people. In 2010, it caused an estimated 216 million cases and 655,000 deaths.

Malaria, a disease caused mainly by the parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, is associated with over 400,000 deaths each year. Previously, the spleen was assumed to mostly play a role ...