The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters the red blood ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Several vaccines that target different stages of the malaria parasite life cycle are now in clinical trials (see the table). The most ...

Biology in the background Malaria is a severe illness that is transmitted ... At the stage in their life cycle when they are infecting a human, a plasmodium parasite can reach about the same length as ...

The film explains the life cycle of the mosquito ... process by which the mosquito infects humans and the subsequent health and economic consequences of malaria. The film advocates for public ...

Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

Adding to the challenge, malaria’s life cycle spans multiple stages across two hosts—humans and mosquitoes—requiring any potential vaccine to target several phases simultaneously.