The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...
Malaria, historically one of the greatest causes of human misery and death 1,2,3, is today relatively contained outside of Africa.This is being achieved with insecticides to attack the mosquito ...
Recently, numerous new candidates have entered clinical testing, following strategies that are as diverse as the malaria cycle is complex ... that are currently in human clinical testing against ...
It's halted some of history's most powerful armies, infected several US presidents, and killed billions of humans throughout history. Malaria is the deadliest disease known to man — and it still ...
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 ...
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 ...
These mosquitoes carry a weakened form of the malaria parasite, designed to trigger a powerful immune response in humans ... stages of the parasite’s life cycle. “Currently licensed and ...