Tag: Plasmodium falciparum

A new Frontiers in Genetics collection shows how portable sequencing, SNP barcode panels, and genomic epidemiology are turning malaria parasite ...

A new review argues that benzothiazole derivatives, acting through DHFR inhibition and heme detoxification, could yield next-generation antimalarials effective against ...

A new study shows that the conserved DEAD-box RNA helicase PfDDX1 modulates the pace of intraerythrocytic development and gene expression ...

A colorimetric LAMP assay combined with column-based DNA extraction markedly outperformed microscopy for detecting low-density Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum ...

A case report in BMC Infectious Diseases describes the first evidence of a Plasmodium falciparum–Plasmodium ovale co-infection in an Ivorian ...

University of São Paulo researchers found that fourteen derivatives of an anticancer compound kill Plasmodium falciparum at both the blood ...

A new analysis of over five million Amazonian malaria cases shows that human mobility, especially linked to mining and indigenous ...

A pooled analysis of Phase III trials in Kenya, Mali, and Zambia found no significant reduction in clinical malaria from ...

A large survey of schoolchildren in Cameroon shows that sickle cell trait does not prevent asymptomatic malaria infections but strongly ...

A study in Burkina Faso finds that people carrying sickle-cell trait or hemoglobin C show elevated sexual conversion of malaria ...

Researchers in Ethiopia have built an interpretable deep learning ensemble that identifies malaria parasite species from thin blood smears with ...

Researchers report that the steroid sulfatase inhibitor irosustat and its target molecule cholesterol sulfate inhibit drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum through a ...

In a groundbreaking advance for infectious disease immunotherapy, researchers have engineered a novel nanoparticle vaccine derived directly from the malaria ...