Molecular mechanisms of hematological and biochemical alterations in malaria: a review

IU Okagu, RN Aguchem, CA Ezema… - Molecular and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malaria is a dangerous disease that contributes to millions of hospital visits and hundreds of
thousands of deaths, especially in children residing in sub-Saharan Africa. Although several …

Knowlesi malaria: Human risk factors, clinical spectrum, and pathophysiology

NM Anstey, MJ Grigg, GS Rajahram, DJ Cooper… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plasmodium knowlesi is endemic across Southeast Asia, and is the commonest cause of
zoonotic malaria. The spectrum of clinical disease from P. knowlesi infection ranges from …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic analysis of the human immune response to Plasmodium vivax

FA Bach, DM Sandoval, M Mazurczyk… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND The biology of Plasmodium vivax is markedly different from that of P.
falciparum; how this shapes the immune response to infection remains unclear. To address …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled human malaria infection with a clone of Plasmodium vivax with high-quality genome assembly

AM Minassian, Y Themistocleous, SE Silk, JR Barrett… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) provides a highly informative means to
investigate host-pathogen interactions and enable in vivo proof-of-concept efficacy testing of …

Defining the antimalarial activity of cipargamin in healthy volunteers experimentally infected with blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum

JS McCarthy, AN Abd-Rahman, KA Collins… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The spiroindolone cipargamin, a new antimalarial compound that inhibits Plasmodium
ATP4, is currently in clinical development. This study aimed to characterize the antimalarial …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal changes in iron homeostasis in human experimental and clinical malaria

SD Woolley, MJ Grigg, L Marquart, JSE Gower… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background The interaction between iron status and malaria is incompletely understood. We
evaluated longitudinal changes in iron homeostasis in volunteers enrolled in malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological characteristics of P. vivax asymptomatic infections in the Peruvian Amazon

E Villasis, SS Garcia Castillo, M Guzman… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Herein, we tested the hypothesis that Asymptomatic P. vivax (Pv) infected
individuals (Asym) feature different epidemiological, clinical and biochemical characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Development and evaluation of a new Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 blood stage malaria cell bank for use in malaria volunteer infection studies

SD Woolley, M Fernandez, M Rebelo, SA Llewellyn… - Malaria Journal, 2021 - Springer
Background New anti-malarial therapeutics are required to counter the threat of increasing
drug resistance. Malaria volunteer infection studies (VIS), particularly the induced blood …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium infection prevents recurrence and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma possibly via inhibition of the epithelial‑mesenchymal transition

Y Liang, X Chen, Z Tao, M Ma… - Molecular …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Postoperative recurrence causes a high mortality rate among patients with hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). The current study aimed to determine the effects of Plasmodium infection …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting disease tolerance in Plasmodium vivax malaria using the systemic degree of inflammatory perturbation

CL Vinhaes, TA Carmo, ATL Queiroz… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Homeostatic perturbation caused by infection fosters two major defense strategies,
resistance and tolerance, which promote the host's survival. Resistance relates to the ability …