Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in ...

Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9041, and Department of Chemistry and Global Health, University ...

School of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, U.K. Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 ...

Background Despite high coverage of malaria interventions, malaria elimination in Zanzibar remains elusive, with the annual number of cases increasing gradually over the last 3 years. Objective The ...

He said, “Most of the RTDs used for testing malaria in Nigeria ... of diagnostic kits. “It is important that we periodically determine the profile of the plasmodium parasite in Nigeria ...

If malaria-causing mosquitoes were sportsmen who play boxing, their key rivals –insecticides, could probably win only the first few bouts. In subsequent matches, mosquitoes will have learnt all the ...

Scientists have fabricated two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing blood parasites ... that destroy Plasmodium parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Southwest Research Institute ...

The finding dramatically expands understanding of druggable targets in mosquito-stage parasite development and lays the groundwork for a new, more effective way to prevent malaria transmission.

The total DNA was extracted from 20 µL of blood from a positive bird sample in microscopic analyses using a Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification Kit (Promega®, São ... pathogenicity of avian malaria ...

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

Malaria infects over 200 million and kills over 500,000 people every year. It is caused by Plasmodium parasites infecting red blood cells and being transmitted from host to host by mosquitos.