New tools bring closer the possibility of exterminating species considered harmful to humans, which is fueling an ethical dilemma ...

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 ...

It wasn’t until much later that researchers learned that the cause of malaria was not bad air, but a parasitic protozoa spread by the anopheles mosquito (did you know early settlers often ...

Protozoan infections are parasitic diseases that affect hundreds ... paying particular attention to promising compounds acting against trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, malaria, toxoplasmosis, amebiasis ...

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 ...

Aizawl: In Mizoram, malaria has resulted in 46 fatalities over the past five years since 2020. However, among the 873 cases identified during January - March this year, no deaths were reported ...

A molecular lab set up by the Kerala Health Department has diagnosed the state''s first case of amoebic meningoencephalitis, causing brain fever.

Researchers have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body's immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite ...

the directorate of health services has sent out detailed advisories to all departments to to take steps to prevent the breeding of the deadly dengue and malaria mosquitoes. They have been ...