Roles of the apicoplast across the life cycles of rodent and human malaria parasites

HD Buchanan, CD Goodman… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria parasites are diheteroxenous, requiring two hosts—a vertebrate and a mosquito—to
complete their life cycle. Mosquitoes are the definitive host where malaria parasite sex …

Autophagy in protists and their hosts: When, how and why?

PS Romano, T Akematsu, S Besteiro… - Autophagy …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pathogenic protists are a group of organisms responsible for causing a variety of human
diseases including malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, and …

[HTML][HTML] Variable long-term protection by radiation-, chemo-, and genetically-attenuated Plasmodium berghei sporozoite vaccines

D Moita, H Nunes-Cabaço, C Rôla, B Franke-Fayard… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-term protection against malaria remains one of the greatest challenges of vaccination
against this deadly parasitic disease. Whole-sporozoite (WSp) malaria vaccine formulations …