The mosquitoes capable of spreading the parasites then are still present today. While the most important malaria mosquito in ...

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

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Health experts are ringing the alarm bell about a rare tick-borne disease slowly making it’s way into Virginia. The disease, called babesiosis, is commonly found in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans. Researchers from the Francis Crick ...

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 ...