Sentences with phrase «malarial infection»

Preventative treatment with a monthly dose of a newer antimalarial drug can reduce the risk of malarial infection among young children, according to a study published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

New insight into the fragile pharaoh's family tree shows intrafamilial marriage, and royal lives cursed by malarial infections and bodily defects

The vaccine contains hepatitis B antigens and protein fragments of Plasmodium falciparum, the species that causes most malarial infections.

The defense works like this: Having a single copy of the allele confers protection from severe malarial infection by somehow rendering the red blood cell less hospitable to the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Exactly how antibodies and complement work together to encourage malarial infection is not yet clear.

The Wistar Institute was awarded a $ 1,494,972 grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance a DNA - based vaccine candidate for protection against malarial infection utilizing a synthetic DNA platform created in the lab of David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Research.

All fields of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all studies have important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology of the Middle East, once the cradle of civilization and now a focus of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis of the zoology of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies of millions in tropical areas around the globe.