1) The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum expresses the protein PfEMP1 on the surface of erythrocytes to adhere the cells to blood vessel walls and escape clearance by the spleen. 2) PfEMP1 can be ...

The anti-malarial mAbs evaluated in trials in malaria-endemic regions target the P. falciparum sporozoite—the life stage of the parasite that is transmitted from mosquitoes to people. By binding ...

The Health, Development and Anti-Malaria Association (HDAMA) announced that it provided various life-saving medicines, medical equipment,and other health servicessupport to more than 600 health ...

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 ...

The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, however, is an entirely more challenging pathogen because it is such a large and complex organism compared to a virus. At the Proteo-Science Center at ...

Girolline, a compound extracted from the sea sponge Pseudaxinyssa cantharella, has been investigated for possible antitumor effects and also found to have anti-malarial effects. Now, researchers have ...

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 ...

Les complications graves ne concernent en général que Plasmodium falciparum. une insuffisance rénale mortelle due à une destruction des tubules rénaux (tubes entortillés des pôles urinaires) appelée ...

Plasmodium falciparum. There are obvious questions that come to mind, including the simplest, why did it take so long for a vaccine to be developed for a disease that kills more than 250,000 ...

Of the handful of parasite species that cause malaria in humans, Plasmodium falciparum is the deadliest. When an infected female Anopheles mosquito feeds on a person, it injects saliva into the ...

Over 60% of the samples analyzed were positive for malaria. Malaria, typically caused by Plasmodium falciparum, is quite common in the DRC, with approximately 12% of all cases and deaths worldwide ...

This finding should have implications for the compound's effect on malaria, because messenger RNA molecules of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, tend to have stretches with ...