Comprehensive genetic mapping of Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic parasite that causes malaria, has revealed the genes required for malaria infection of the blood, and those driving drug resistance. By ...

The government is warning that cases of malaria stemming from the Plasmodium knowlesi (P knowlesi) parasite are on the rise, leading to more than 70 cases in five months, about seven times the yearly ...

Malaria researchers have just made a breakthrough that could transform how we fight one of the world's deadliest diseases. Scientists at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have mapped the ...

The macaque malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi that is now spreading among human population in South Asia could evolve to infect humans more efficiently, according to a new study from Harvard T.H.

Since 2004, an increasing number of human Plasmodium knowlesi malaria cases have been identified throughout Southeast Asia, according to study. Researchers found that between 2008 and 2012, forest ...

A study has claimed that many patients have found their cure in treatment with primaquine and chloroquine (anti-malarial drugs) but one unfortunate case out of ten developed serious complications and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 96, No. 24 (Nov. 23, 1999), pp. 14067-14072 (6 pages) Invasion of erythrocytes by malaria parasites is mediated by ...

Deforestation in Malaysia and the changes it causes to the environment are highly likely to be to blame for a steep rise in human cases of a type of malaria usually found in monkeys, scientists said ...

Aerial drones are targeting a new enemy: malaria. Four hundred feet above a Malaysian forest, a three-foot eBee drone hovers and takes pictures with a 16-megapixel camera every 10 to 20 seconds. But ...