Conversion from the asexual to the sexual phase of the malaria parasite is necessary for its transmission to the mosquito. A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) -- an ...

Malaria. Image Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/Shutterstock.com Plasmodium species infecting humans share a similar life cycle. This life cycle consists of an initial development phase in the liver ...

Much is known about the microbes that cause the disease, tiny parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which have a complex life cycle involving several distinct phases and habitats. But, many details ...

(1) Plasmodium’s life-cycle is set off as soon as a female Anopheles mosquito containing a form of the parasite called the sporozoite in its salivary glands bites a human. Once in the blood ...

Figure 1: The malaria parasite life cycle. Figure 3: Reduced microsatellite diversity from a chloroquine selective sweep on the pfcrt locus of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 7. Genome-wide ...

(2012) The Activities of Current Antimalarial Drugs on the Life Cycle Stages of Plasmodium Life Cycle: A Comparative Study with Human and Rodent Parasites. PLoS Med 9(2): e1001169. doi:10.1371 ...

Vaccine development has been difficult for several reasons, one being that the Plasmodium parasite has a complex life cycle. The parasite takes on many different forms when it infects and breeds ...

Malaria infection in humans, caused by unicellular parasites from the genus Plasmodium and transmitted ... their complex human and mosquito life cycle. They move by a process called gliding ...