When a person is bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito, sporozoites of malarial parasites are injected into the blood stream. Inside the blood, the sporozoites circulate before entering the ...

A malaria parasite originated in African apes before evolving to infect people, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have studied the parasite Plasmodium malariae – one of six ...

The Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC) ® system was used for the detection and identification of malaria parasites in blood specimens from 570 residents of Oksibil, an isolated highland valley in the ...

Two types of parasites are actually one with several host species, researchers have discovered. This finding has consequences for the global battle against the disease, the scientists say. Research ...

The prevalence of malaria infection in 102 paired maternal-blood and umbilical cord-blood samples was assessed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a holoendemic area in Kenya.

THE study of the causes of intermittent or malarial fevers has received a marked impetus through the discovery by Laveran (Traité des fièvres palustres, 1884) of the presence in the blood of the ...

Malaria is a vector-borne disease that is quite common during monsoons. As stagnant water provides a breeding space for mosquitoes and thus, increase your risk of getting infected with the Plasmodium ...

Malaria is the most common mosquito-borne disease in India. It is caused when Anopheles mosquito containing malaria virus bites a person. It infects the red blood cells (RBCs) of the person which then ...

The Monsoon may be some days in coming, but that hasn't stopped the mosquitoes from spreading their wings. A deadlier malaria parasite is increasingly gaining foothold in Delhi at the expense of a ...

Plasmodium Ovale is not a very common type of malaria that has been identified in a soldier in Kerala who is believed to have contracted in Sudan during his posting, where Plasmodium Ovale is endemic.