Plasmodium vivax poses a particular challenge to malaria control because it can lie dormant in the liver and cause relapses weeks or months after the initial infection. In Pakistan, one of the ...

knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in ... the findings also provide insights into one other malaria-causing Plasmodium species, P. vivax, due to their evolutionary relatedness.

Which got scientists wondering: could the parasites be coordinating in some way with the 24-hour circadian rhythms of their hosts? To find out, the researchers collected blood from 10 people who ...

the malaria parasites do appear to be aligned with the circadian clock of a host,” he said, but scientists were not sure if this was true in humans as well. To find out, the researchers collected ...

Background: Treatment of vivax malaria with primaquine prevents the relapse of infection from residual liver stages of the parasite. Inadequate dosage is related to a higher relapse risk.

Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

Two studies show that Plasmodium—the genus of protozoans that cause malaria—have an internal sense of time that synchronizes with their host’s circadian rhythms and allows the parasites to ...

Plasmodium parasites that cause Malaria infect hundreds of millions each year, but we still lack a full understanding of how they transmit from host to host and the conditions that enable Plasmodium ...

When it comes to evading the human immune system, the malaria parasite is a master ... the elaborate defense mechanism that the Plasmodium falciparum parasite erects after it has entered a human ...