Sentences with phrase «malarial parasite»
A "malarial parasite" refers to a tiny living organism that causes malaria, a serious disease that affects people and animals. The parasite enters the body through mosquito bites and spreads in the bloodstream, causing symptoms like high fever, chills, body aches, and fatigue. It's important to protect oneself from mosquito bites in areas where malaria is common to avoid getting infected with this parasite. Full definition
So, full Plasmodium falciparum development that takes 56 days at 18 degrees C, but only 19 days at 22 degrees, has very significant implications for a mosquito host that lives only 3 weeks maximum: it allows the full development of malarial parasites which are not possible at the lower temperature.
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It is key to its antimalarial property and makes artemisinin - based drugs entirely different from those derived from quinine, such as chloroquine, to which malarial parasites have become resistant.
Transmitted by mosquitoes, the most widespread malarial parasite in Africa is Plasmodium falciparum; it is also the most dangerous.
Microsystems engineers Maxim Shusteff (left) and Nick Watkins, a postdoctoral scientist, assemble a microfluidic device they are developing to separate malarial parasites by their viability.
In the third project, Shusteff, a microsystems engineer in the Center for Micro and Nanotechnology, is developing a microfluidic device to separate malarial parasites by their viability.
«Malarial parasites dodge the kill.»
The system works by tracking local water cycles to work out where the mosquitoes that carry malarial parasites are most likely to breed.
They found that a single infected person could harbour many genetically different malarial parasites, allowing the parasite populations to swap DNA to create new forms.
Nor have I difficulty in applauding the campaign of the World Health Organization to eradicate the smallpox virus and the malarial parasite.
The subjects will be monitored to see if they produce antibodies against the malarial parasite and the disease itself.
Many antimalarial drugs both slow the growth of malarial parasites, and, at higher doses or over longer periods of time, also kill the malarial parasites.
The Nigerian milk also had antibodies to the malarial parasite, giving babies extra protection (Journal of Tropical Paediatrics, vol 46, p 92).
«For example, in the case of malaria, several groups have created genetic cassettes that when introduced into mosquitoes prevent the malarial parasite from propagating thereby blocking infection.
Scientists know that these proteins are somehow involved in the malarial parasite's invasion of red blood cells.
Determining the genome sequence of both the malarial parasite and the mosquito vector are massive achievements that bring the hope of eradication closer.
Then, for reasons possibly linked to a malarial parasite that exploited Neu5Gc as a means to establish infection, a mutation that probably occurred between 2 and 3 million years ago inactivated the human gene encoding the enzyme that makes the molecule.
A study uncovers the chemical basis by which human infection with the malarial parasite Plasmodium might lead to increased mosquito bites.