Researchers from the Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale at the University of Strasbourg and the Laboratoire de Parasitologie et de Mycologie Médicale at the Strasbourg University ...

Malaria, a disease caused mainly by the parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, is associated with over 400,000 deaths each year. Previously, the spleen was assumed to mostly play a role ...

KAE609 (cipargamin; formerly NITD609, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases) is a new synthetic antimalarial spiroindolone analogue with potent, dose-dependent antimalarial activity against asexual ...

Currently, few antimalarial treatments exist that effectively kill liver-stage malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax, which can lay dormant for months or even years. Researchers have reported a new drug ...

New research co-led by Burnet Institute and WEHI has uncovered how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax, paving the way for the first effective vaccine against the most widespread form of ...

CYP2D6 phenotypes were ascertained in 25 available participants. The institutional review boards of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Naval Medical Research Center, and the Walter Reed ...

The parasite Plasmodium vivax, responsible for 7.5 million malaria cases worldwide, remains understudied. Not much is known about its dormant stage in the liver. An international team has developed a ...

Malaria is caused by a parasite that is spread by mosquito bites People are to be sent to mainland Europe to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects.