During a malaria infection, countless Plasmodium parasites simultaneously destroy the red blood cells they’ve inhabited ... field as to why it is that malaria parasites are synchronous inside ...

The parasites that cause malaria—Plasmodium species—have complex lifecycles. They are spread between hosts by mosquitoes, spend some time maturing in liver cells, and then eventually end up inside red ...

Parasites inside the red blood cells may cause blockage of tiny vessels ... Malaria, a disease caused by different species of Plasmodium parasite, typically results in headache, fever, fatigue ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated by researchers at Harvard T.

Of the handful of parasite species that cause malaria in humans, Plasmodium ... it to slip inside. The merozoites then multiply, and burst out to infect yet more red blood cells.