During the bloodstream stage of the malaria life cycle, merozoites that are derived either from infected erythrocytes or infected hepatocytes infect erythrocytes by a well-characterized process ...

During different phases of the parasite’s life cycle, there is a variation in how the organism affects red blood cells and ...

The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters the red blood ...

researchers at Nagasaki University are revealing details about the parasite’s life cycle and biology in the hope they can be exploited. Of the handful of parasite species that cause malaria in ...

When someone has malaria, a deadly loop repeats itself inside their body ... Plasmodium vivax parasites have a life cycle that repeats every 48 hours. Sure enough, for every turn of the parasite clock ...

Malaria is a life-threatening disease that is transferred by mosquito bites. Interestingly, a specific type of mosquito can carry the disease. The transfer of the parasite to humans travels to the ...

Study co-led by The Universty of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio provides new possibilities for prevention, treatment of severe malaria ...

A new malaria vaccine appears to be "safe and highly immunogenic", with "promising efficacy", according to interim results of ...

Malaria is endemic in many parts of the developing world. It causes around two million deaths a year and has a huge impact both personally and econimically. An animated sequence describes the ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates the parasite Plasmodium that carries malaria. This disease ... cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. Infested by Toxoplasma gondii.

"Di complexity of di malaria parasite life cycle don hamper di development of a vaccine for years. (But) di R21/Matrix-M vaccine dey target di plasmodium 'sporozoite', wey be di first form of di ...