A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

In cases of a condition called jaundice, a compound called bilirubin turns a person's skin and eyes yellow. It's usually a ...

The median parasite clearance time was 12 hours in each cohort (interquartile range, 8 to 16 hours in patients with P. vivax malaria and 10 to 16 hours in those with P. falciparum malaria). The ...

A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. In 2022, nearly 619,000 global deaths due to malaria were caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine examined over 2,000 P. falciparum samples. Their analysis revealed that 18 of the 21 FIKK kinase genes ...

Even if some P. falciparum spores evade the RTS,S response, the antibodies produced by the new vaccine will still limit the parasite’s ability to enter red blood cells. Med, 2023.

P. falciparum is known to invade human red blood cells, but the precise details of the targets that the parasite binds to has not been known to date.

Laos malaria outbreak in 2020–21 likely caused by multidrug-resistant strains of P. falciparum. News-Medical, viewed 20 February 2025, https: ...

Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) is an apicomplexan parasite responsible for most malarial infections in humans. The development of reliable preventative vaccinations against P. falciparum has ...

In P. falciparum infections, fevers would occur on days 1, 3 and 5, whereas in P. malariae, fevers would occur on days 1, 4 and 7, and so forth. It is important, however, to remember two points.

P. falciparum is tiny. But some parasites can grow to be whoppers. The biggest one that infects human hosts is thought to be Diphyllobothrium latum. This parasite can grow up to 30 feet long (at least ...