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 …

Malaria is a major disease of humans caused by protozoan parasites from the genus
Plasmodium. It has a complex life cycle; however, asexual parasite infection within the blood …

The malaria parasite is the most important member of the Apicomplexa, a large and highly
successful phylum of intracellular parasites. Invasion of host cells allows apicomplexan …

Plasmodium sporozoites are deposited in the skin of their vertebrate hosts through the bite
of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Most of these parasites find a blood vessel and …

Protozoan Plasmodium parasites are the causative agents of malaria, a deadly disease that
continues to afflict hundreds of millions of people every year. Infections with malaria …

Plasmodium sporozoites are the product of a complex developmental process in the
mosquito vector and are destined to infect the mammalian liver. Attention has been drawn to …

The liver is the largest organ in the body and is generally regarded by non-immunologists as
not having lymphoid function. However, such is far from accurate. This review highlights the …

Intracellular malaria parasites require lipids for growth and replication. They possess a
prokaryotic type II fatty acid synthesis (FAS II) pathway that localizes to the apicoplast plastid …

This 2e of Toxoplasma gondii reflects the significant advances in the field in the last 5 years,
including new information on the genomics, epigenomics and proteomics of T. gondii as well …

In their infection cycle, malaria parasites undergo replication and population expansions
within the vertebrate host and the mosquito vector. Host infection initiates with sporozoite …