Sentences with phrase «cause of the human malaria»

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The most serious forms of the disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, but other related species (Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae) can also infect humans.

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

Scott said such data would be critical in finding and targeting the human transmission routes of malaria - causing parasites.

Both manuscripts detail the role of the same AP2 - G transcriptional regulator with remarkably similar findings — despite the different groups» having worked with two highly diverged malaria parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the most severe form of human malaria and Plasmodium berghei, a commonly used model parasite infecting rodents.

Surprisingly, the major blood stage form of the parasite that causes the terrible cycles of intense fevers associated with malaria in humans can not be transmitted to mosquitos.

Elegant, dainty, and deadly, it is the most common of all blood - sucking arthropods and the most important insect carrier of human disease, transmitting not only malaria but also yellow fever, dengue, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and the tiny worms that cause elephantiasis.

To test their method, the researchers looked at functional predictions of a protozoan parasite known to cause the most severe form of malaria in humans — Plasmodium falciparum.

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.

Hahn's lab studies ape relatives of human pathogens such as HIV and malaria to gain a greater insight into the microbes that cause these diseases in humans.

In this way, the mutation is somewhat similar to sickle cell anemia in humans, where having one copy of a mutated gene gives one an immunity to malaria, while two copies causes a painful, life - threatening illness.

Malaria is caused by five different Plasmodium spp. in humans each of which modifies the host erythrocyte to survive and replicate.

Sequencing the genome of the malaria parasite has revealed interesting clues as to how it is able to evade the human immune system for long enough to cause disease.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

Malaria is caused by species of single - celled parasites in the genus Plasmodium, vectored by mosquitoes primarily in the genera Aedes and Anopheles between many vertebrate hosts, including humans.

For this is a problem that if not controlled may cause the death of tens or hundreds of thousands of helpless victims caused by intense storms and heat waves, the death or sickness of millions that may suffer dengue fever or malaria, the destruction of some nations» ability to grow food or provide drinking water, the devastation of forests and personal property, and the acceleration of elimination of countless species of plants and animals that are already stressed by other human activities.