Sentences with phrase «of human malaria»

The paper «A protease cascade regulates release of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from host red blood cells» is published in Nature Microbiology.

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.

The researchers note that this strategy of vaccination with the functional protein AMA1 - RON2 complex could be tested in the next generation of human malaria vaccines.

That program pioneered advances that have lowered the risks of human malaria challenges and increased the benefits, opening the way to the trials flourishing today in several places.

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.

(Laverania parasites are close relatives of the human malaria parasite P. falciparum.)

In 2010, Hahn and colleagues discovered that gorillas were the origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the most prevalent and lethal of the malaria parasites that infect people.

Plasmodium vivax has been the most common cause of the human malaria parasite in the Brazilian Amazon region over the last seven years [1].

I started my PhD in the Cell Surface Signalling Group in 2013 and have since been investigating how Plasmodium falciparum parasites, the causative agent of the most severe form of human malaria, interact with their human host.