Scientists are exploring the key proteins and metabolic pathways in Plasmodium falciparum to develop new drugs to prevent malaria. Pink block arrows indicate the steps inhibited by antimalarial ...

It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are resistant to malaria, an infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum that causes cycles of chills and fever. The parasite spends the ...

which incorporates a fusion protein comprising part of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (a sporozoite surface protein) and the hepatitis B virus surface antigen. When used in ...

As reported in Nature, Plasmodium, the parasite that causes the disease ... existed for the most dangerous species, Plasmodium falciparum, for any time period before the 20th century.

Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment. Natalie Slivinski This person does ...