One key way to tell them apart is the appearance of a classic "Maltese cross morphology" in babesiosis, which occurs when four Babesia parasite rings arrange themselves within the red blood cell ...

Understanding more about the parasite’s life cycle, the genes involved, and the factors that control these, can be vital to ongoing malaria research.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite, can hide from the body’s immune system ...

WEHI researchers have visualized a key protein complex in malaria parasites for the first time, uncovering a new target for next-generation vaccines that could help stop the disease from spreading.

The analysis, nevertheless, is a deep dive into how the two mAbs, CIS43LS and L9LS, bind to surface proteins and deactivate the malaria parasite.

The malaria parasite replicates in the mosquito gut and infects people through the bug’s saliva. Get rid of the mosquito middleman, and we may nip malaria and other blood-borne diseases in the bud.

Malaria, a potentially deadly disease caused by a mosquito-borne parasite, is making inroads into the US. Five new cases of malaria — one in Texas and four in Florida — are alarming officials ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

Bulbul Aktar, a s hasthya kormi, or community health worker, with the malaria elimination program in Bangladesh, goes door to door to treat malaria patients. "This is my job, my duty," says Aktar.

Malaria infects 300-500 million people yearly, resulting in nearly 600,000 deaths globally.