The ability of malaria parasites to persist in the body for years is linked to the expression of a set of genes from the pir gene family, scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2017
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Scientists have discovered why infections with two types of malaria parasite lead to greater health risks.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2016
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Scientists have just identified an Achilles heel in the parasite that causes malaria, by showing that its optimum development is dependent on its ability to expropriate RNA molecules in infected cells – a host-pathogen ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 12, 2016
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Scientists have documented for the first time how competition among different malaria parasite strains in human hosts could influence the spread of drug resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Aix Marseille Université in France has found that mosquitoes might be not only carrying the bacteria Rickettsia felis, but might be transmitting it to humans in Africa as well, causing ...
A way to combat malaria developed by scientists at Imperial College London and the University of York may also be effective against the deadly tropical disease leishmaniasis, new research has shown.
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2015
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Many pathogens are transmitted by insect bites. The abundance of vectors (as the transmitting insects are called) depends on seasonal and other environmental fluctuations. An article published on September 11thin PLOS Pathogens ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 11, 2014
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Malaria parasites alter the chemical odor signal of their hosts to attract mosquitos and better spread their offspring, according to researchers, who believe this scent change could be used as a diagnostic tool.
Ecology
Jun 30, 2014
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Researchers have found the first evidence of an intercellular bacterial infection in natural populations of two species of Anopheles mosquitoes, the major vectors of malaria in Africa. The infection, called Wolbachia, has ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 6, 2014
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As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2013
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