The emergence of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has threatened the
effectiveness of malaria treatment in Southeast Asia. In this report, such resistance has been …

Background Malaria was eliminated from southern and southeastern Brazil over 50 years
ago. However, an increasing number of autochthonous episodes attributed to Plasmodium …

Plasmodium vivax is the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America but is
absent from most of central Africa due to the near fixation of a mutation that inhibits the …

Artemisinin‐ and artesunate‐resistant Plasmodium chabaudi mutants, AS‐ART and AS‐ATN,
were previously selected from chloroquine‐resistant clones AS‐30CQ and AS‐15CQ …

Malaria kills close to a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five. In the
drive towards the development of an effective vaccine and new chemotherapeutic targets …

It has been proposed that ovale malaria in humans is caused by two closely related but distinct
species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri. It …

A single Anopheles dirus mosquito carrying sporozoites of Plasmodium knowlesi, P. falciparum,
and P. vivax was recently discovered in Khanh Phu, southern Vietnam. Further sampling …

Background Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a high performance method
for detecting DNA and holds promise for use in the molecular detection of infectious …

Malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) infect all classes of terrestrial vertebrates and display
host specificity in their infections. It is therefore assumed that malaria parasites coevolved …

Malaria in humans is caused by six species of Plasmodium parasites, of which the nuclear
genome sequences for the two Plasmodium ovale spp., P. ovale curtisi and P. ovale wallikeri, …