However, studies have suggested that iron deficiency anemia may offer
protection against malaria infection and that the provision of iron may increase malaria morbidity and mortality,» according to background information in the article.
Not exact matches
«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the
malaria parasite, offer
protection against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of
malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery Research Unit at UCT, and senior author of the paper.
A mutation already well known for conferring
protection against a type of
malaria appears, paradoxically, to dramatically increase the risk of HIV
infection.
And immediately after the vaccination series,
protection against infection from matched
malaria was 95 percent.