Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that is caused by Plasmodium parasites. Patients with malaria experience flu-like symptoms and, in severe cases, the disease can progress to neurological ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...

The focus of this study is on the feature extraction development for Plasmodium ovale detection. A novel strategy is proposed by divide the feature extraction into two stages. The first stage focused ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Histo-aspartic protease (HAP) from Plasmodium falciparum is a promising target for the development of novel ...

They designed netting systems to deliver antimalarial drugs called Endochin-like Quinolones (ELQs) that destroy Plasmodium parasites transmitted by ...

Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9041, and Department of Chemistry and Global Health, University ...

Researchers have identified a type of chemical compound that, when applied to insecticide-treated bed nets, appears to kill the malaria-causing parasite in mosquitoes.

Steroids from Solanum nudum (SNs) have demonstrated antiplasmodial activity against erythrocytic stages of the Plasmodium falciparum strain FCB-2. It is well known that steroids can alter the membrane ...

Four different plasmodia can cause disease in humans: Plasmodium. falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium vivax. People get malaria from the bite of an infected mosquito. A ...

All patients were classified into four groups by TOE based on direct visualisation of shunt through a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or either pulmonary vein: no shunt (group 1: n=11), PFO (group 2: n=47) ...

The concomitant presence of the gametes of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in the mosquito midgut during a mixed infection might create opportunities for genetic exchange through ...