Sentences with phrase «malaria infections in humans»

Thus far, innate resistance to malaria infections in humans has been attributed to blood group polymorphisms.

Not exact matches

A study of the way malaria parasites behave when they live in human red blood cells has revealed that they can rapidly change the proteins on the surface of their host cells during the course of a single infection in order to hide from the immune system.

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

«The first generation GAP strain had two genes removed from the malaria parasite, but this new «triple punch», developed in collaboration with scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia, removes three separate genes associated with the pathogenicity of the parasite, effectively abrogating its ability to establish an infection in humans.»

Recent studies have identified genetic variants that account for variability in human susceptibility and severity of infection and might be useful for vaccine and treatment development in malaria [80][84] and dengue [85], [86], for example.

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The long - tailed macaque carries a virulent strain of malaria that is responsible for an increasing number of human infections in Malaysia.