In this documentary video from the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians and scientists from across the world discuss the epidemiology of malaria and outline key strategies for prevention and ...

Malaria pathogenesis reflects a complex interplay between Plasmodium parasites and the host immune system, in which T cells occupy centre stage. CD4+ T helper 1 (Th1) cells drive protective immunity ...

Malaria pathogenesis is driven by intricate molecular interactions between Plasmodium parasites and human host cells, among which glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors play a pivotal role. GPI ...

1 Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2042, Australia. Cerebral malaria (CM) is a complex of syndromes relating to the ...

Two hemoglobin mutations, including one that causes sickle cell anemia, may protect people from severe malaria by gumming up the cellular machinery the parasite uses to transmit deadly proteins to the ...

Researchers report that the discovery of a malaria protein that helps the parasite grow inside red blood cells and plays a key regulatory role in the parasite’s immune evasion tactics could pave the ...

Malaria is a parasitic disease of human beings. It is transmitted in 108 countries, in total affecting around 3 billion people. In 2010, it caused an estimated 216 million cases and 655,000 deaths.

Cerebral malaria is one of a number of clinical syndromes associated with infection by human malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The etiology of cerebral malaria derives from sequestration of ...