Penn State press release on new paper in Scientific Reports:
Malaria infection risk influenced by daily temperature variations.
Not exact matches
More than half the world's people are at
risk of
malaria infection.
People who have never been exposed to the disease also run the highest
risk of
infection, so mosquitoes may spread
malaria to countless new victims as they follow the rains into fresh territories, say experts.
How these findings could be used in public health settings, as a marker of individual and population
risk of
malaria infection, is the next step.
A mutation already well known for conferring protection against a type of
malaria appears, paradoxically, to dramatically increase the
risk of HIV
infection.
Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and
risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease.
So how could a
malaria infection increase a child's
risk of developing this type of cancer?
Pregnant women and their unborn children are at a high
risk for complications from
malaria infection, and finding new treatment options is important because the
malaria parasites are becoming increasingly resistant to the existing WHO - recommended drug sulphadoxine - pyrimethamine (SP).
During the
malaria blood - stage
infection P. falciparum parasite infects the red blood cells which bind to chondroitin sulphate A (CSA) in the intervillous spaces of the placenta, preventing the efficient transmission of nutrients to the foetus and increasing the
risk of spontaneous abortion.
A vaccine that boosts levels of anti-AMA1 antibodies might therefore reduce the
risk that
malaria infection will cause clinical disease, making AMA1 an attractive candidate for inclusion in a multi-stage, multi-antigen
malaria vaccine [8].
The student is unable to interact with peers or educators without the
risk of
infection or contamination to himself or herself or others (e.g., measles, respiratory illness,
malaria).