The paper, by Mariana De Niz at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Plasmodium gametocytes display homing and vascular transmigration in the host ...

“Antimalarials save lives, but while they target blood-stage infections, they are poor at targeting other forms of the parasite such as transmissible gametocytes,” says Professor Lyn-Marie ...

progressing to form female and male gametocytes.” The team then applied the same approach to parasites from blood samples collected from four people naturally infected with malaria in Mali. “We also ...

Since the regenerated call for malaria elimination by WHO in 2016, 12 countries endemic for Plasmodium falciparum or ...

The infectiousness of patients with clinical attacks of malaria depends on the presence of gametocytes in the peripheral blood. Thin smears were examined for gametocytes in a total of 401 attacks.

2009). First, despite the abundance of merozoites in the patients' blood, very few of these produce gametocytes that ultimately transfer to mosquitoes (Hastings 2004). Thus the probability that a ...

New Delhi: The pharmaceutical major GSK has got approval from the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) functional under the Central ...