Blood smears remain the gold standard for malaria diagnosis ... Positive Results: Identify the parasite species and estimate parasite density. High parasite density indicates severe malaria. Negative ...
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 ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines for ...
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that is caused by Plasmodium parasites. Patients with malaria experience flu-like symptoms and, in severe cases, the disease can progress to neurological ...
Efforts to combat malaria include vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which focus on the sporozoite stage of the parasite’s lifecycle. Sporozoites, transmitted through mosquito bites, infect ...
Like malaria, the parasite is spread by an insect host. American trypanosomiasis is transmitted by the assassin bug. African trypanosomiasis is spread by the tsetse fly, which leaves a painful, two to ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special ...
Capstone project in Deep Learning for the MIT-PE Applied Data Science Course. Focused on application of different neural network architectures to automatically classify uninfected and malaria infected ...