Pregnancy malaria (PM ... During PM, parasites typically sequester in the placenta, whereas peripheral blood smears often appear negative. In addition, many infected women remain asymptomatic ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The study, published today as a ...

A drug-resistant strain of the parasite that causes malaria has been identified by ... and Columbia University (New York, USA) analysed blood samples from patients in Rwanda.

The RH5.1/Matrix-M blood-stage malaria vaccine is poised to become a vital secondary line of defence for populations at high risk of malaria infection, particularly in areas where pre-erythrocytic ...

Their red blood cells, containing some abnormal hemoglobin, tend to sickle when they are infected by the malaria parasite. Those infected cells flow through the spleen, which culls them out ...

WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: "Today is a historic day" Malaria is a parasite that invades and destroys our blood cells in order to reproduce, and it's spread by the bite of blood-sucking ...