Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

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 ...

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.