Sentences with phrase «using human malaria»

In tests in mice, a vaccine developed using human malaria parasite proteins — known as MSP -1-BBM — enabled the immune system to produce antibodies in the bloodstream.

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Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»

Recombinant DNA procedures might be better used to attack the global scourge of malaria than to concoct human growth hormones to make the short tall.

These antibodies were shown to respond to the human malaria parasite, indicating that the vaccine would be likely to trigger an immune reaction if it were used in people.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

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.

Thus, gene drive could be used to reduce malaria transmission in humans — or in endangered birds (see image, above)-- by making the mosquito vectors incapable of spreading the malaria parasite or even eliminating the insects altogether.

Such implants aren't likely to be acceptable for use in humans, Foy says — but he points out that ivermectin would only be given during the rainy season, when malaria mosquitoes are active.

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.

Pattanayak and his team found that the incidents of malaria, acute respiratory infections and diarrhea were significantly lower near strictly protected areas such as parks and other reserves that preserve biodiversity and tightly restrict human use.

Immunologists have suspected that P. falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite, uses several mechanisms to evade the human immune response and invade red blood cells.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.