News tagged with malaria pathogen
Study shows how parasites manipulate plants to attract insects
Pathogens can alter their hosts, for example malaria parasites can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, but how they do it has remained a mystery. Scientists from the John Innes Centre on Norwich Research ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Analysis reveals malaria, other diseases as ancient, adaptive and persistent foes
One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present long before ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Malaria mosquitoes reveal pathogen defense strategies
(PhysOrg.com) -- In analyzing malaria mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa, a Cornell-led team of researchers finds evidence of two very different evolutionary paths in the immune systems of neighboring mosquito ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Seizing control of South American parasite
Scientists battling Leishmania, a parasite second only to malaria in the number of deaths it causes, have identified an important vulnerability in the genetic code of one major parasite strain.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Hope for malaria may be inside African mosquitoes
In the realm of human suffering, few diseases afflict more widespread misery than malaria, which strikes hundreds of millions of people every year and claims about a million lives -- mostly children living ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Immune cell type controls onset and course of severe malaria
Scientists have determined that a subset of immune cells may cause malaria patients to contract the severe form of the disease, suffering worse symptoms. Led by Monash University immunologist Professor Magdalena Plebanski, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Unraveling plant reactions to injury
Better understanding of plant defense systems, and the potential to generate stress-tolerant plants and even new malaria drugs, may all stem from the documentation of a molecular mechanism that plays a significant ...
May 27, 2011 |
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New malaria agent found in chimpanzees close to that commonly observed in humans
Researchers based in Gabon and France report the discovery of a new malaria agent infecting chimpanzees in Central Africa. This new species, named Plasmodium gaboni, is a close relative of the most virulent human agent P. fa ...
May 29, 2009 |
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Old stain in a new combination
New combinations of agents based on the oldest synthetic malaria drug, the methylene blue stain, can curb the spread of malaria parasites and make a significant contribution to the long-term eradication called for by the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 20, 2009 |
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New findings highlight the role of endothelial cell activation in children with cerebral malaria
Researchers have identified a novel pathway that may contribute to the high mortality associated with severe malaria in sub-Saharan African children. The study, published March 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, report ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell
Sick people often lose their sense of smell and their appetite. If this happened to mosquitoes, they would not be able to feed on humans and spread malaria. A team of Penn State entomologists is looking for an insect disease ...
May 07, 2009 |
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