Malaria, caused by infection with protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, is a major global heath problem and is responsible for the deaths of over a million people annually, mainly children ...

New Delhi: US researchers have uncovered the role of Plasmodium falciparum -- a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria -- in the development of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), the most common childhood ...

The relatively recent discovery of aquaporins (AQP) has introduced a new mechanism of membrane transport that may provide a therapeutic target for parasitic protozoan infections. The AQP family of ...

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 ...

There are two more cases of locally acquired malaria in Sarasota County, according to the Florida Department of Health, bringing the total number of cases to six in the state. At the end of June ...

Malaria is a potentially life-threatening infectious disease that is caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female ...

Malaria is a parasitic infection caused by any one of four protozoan species of the genus Plasmodium. In addition to P. vivax, the other three are P. falciparum, P. ovale and P. malariae.

When a mosquito infected with malaria bites a person, it injects a few dozen sporozoites into the bloodstream. These long, sprightly forms of the parasitic protozoan reach the liver within an hour ...

But malaria is an altogether tougher challenge. The disease is caused by a protozoan parasite, a single-celled organism with multiple life stages, each evolved to evade the immune response.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors to be on the lookout for malaria cases after five people who had not traveled outside of the country fell ill with locally ...