Malaria is perhaps the most important parasitic disease worldwide, is caused the protozoan Plasmodium—P. falciparum causes the severest form of the human disease—and is responsible for half a billion ...

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 ...

Malaria was believed to be caused by miasma ... and are relatively straightforward compared to parasites. Plasmodium is a protozoan parasite and eukaryotic organism with multiple stages of ...

Female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites between humans. This particular female glows green due to a diet containing fluorescein, which appears green under ultraviolet light ...

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 ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Several vaccines that target different stages of the malaria parasite life cycle are now in clinical trials (see the table). The most ...

Malaria is spread by the female anopheles mosquito. When an infected mosquito bites a person, the malaria parasite is passed into the human bloodstream, infecting them. Mosquitoes in turn can pick ...

Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the ...