Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

Malaria accounts for an enormous burden of disease globally, with Plasmodium falciparum
accounting for the majority of malaria, and P. vivax being a second important cause …

Plasmodium vivax is a major cause of febrile illness in endemic areas of Asia, Central and
South America, and the horn of Africa. Plasmodium vivax infections are characterized by …

The fight against mosquito-borne diseases is a challenge of huge public health importance.
To our mind, 2015 was an extraordinary year for malaria control, due to three hot news: the …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatics has successfully been
used in a vast array of analyses for infectious disease research of public health relevance …

Toxoplasma gondii is among the most prevalent parasites worldwide, infecting many wild
and domestic animals and causing zoonotic infections in humans. T. gondii differs …

Plasmodium vivax is geographically the most widely distributed cause of malaria in people,
with up to 2· 5 billion people at risk and an estimated 80 million to 300 million clinical cases …

Plasmodium vivax shows a strict host tropism for reticulocytes. We identified transferrin
receptor 1 (TfR1) as the receptor for P. vivax reticulocyte-binding protein 2b (PvRBP2b). We …

More than a century after the discovery of Plasmodium spp. parasites, the pathogenesis of
severe malaria is still not well understood. The majority of malaria cases are caused by …

Nanobiomedicine and parasitology are facing a number of key challenges, which mostly
deal with the paucity of effective preventive and curative tools against mosquito-borne …