When a person is bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito, sporozoites of malarial parasites are injected into the blood stream. Inside the blood, the sporozoites circulate before entering the ...

The Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC) ® system was used for the detection and identification of malaria parasites in blood specimens from 570 residents of Oksibil, an isolated highland valley in the ...

A malaria parasite originated in African apes before evolving to infect people, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have studied the parasite Plasmodium malariae – one of six ...

Researchers say they have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees. They discovered that the parasite, Plasmodium ...

The prevalence of malaria infection in 102 paired maternal-blood and umbilical cord-blood samples was assessed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a holoendemic area in Kenya.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are spread to humans by mosquitoes. The genomes of three human infective Plasmodium species are relatively well studied, especially P. falciparum, the ...

Two types of parasites are actually one with several host species, researchers have discovered. This finding has consequences for the global battle against the disease, the scientists say. Research ...

Malaria is caused by a parasite belonging to the Plasmodium family. The parasite can be spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. This is common in Asia and Latin America. The ...

THE study of the causes of intermittent or malarial fevers has received a marked impetus through the discovery by Laveran (Traité des fièvres palustres, 1884) of the presence in the blood of the ...

Malaria is the most common mosquito-borne disease in India. It is caused when Anopheles mosquito containing malaria virus bites a person. It infects the red blood cells (RBCs) of the person which then ...