Malaria therapeutics: are we close enough?

H Tripathi, P Bhalerao, S Singh, H Arya, BS Alotaibi… - Parasites & …, 2023 - Springer
Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by the apicomplexan protozoan parasite
Plasmodium. Malaria is a significant health problem and the leading cause of …

Escaping the enemy's bullets: an update on how malaria parasites evade host immune response

CA Ezema, IU Okagu, TPC Ezeorba - Parasitology research, 2023 - Springer
Malaria continues to cause untold hardship to inhabitants of malaria-endemic regions,
causing significant morbidity and mortality that severely impact global health and the …

Malaria parasite classification framework using a novel channel squeezed and boosted CNN

SH Khan, NS Shah, R Nuzhat, A Majid, H Alquhayz… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Malaria is a life-threatening infection that infects the red blood cells and gradually grows
throughout the body. The plasmodium parasite is transmitted by a female Anopheles …

Leucinostatins from fungal extracts block malaria transmission to mosquitoes

G Niu, X Wang, W Gao, L Cui, J Li - Parasites & Vectors, 2024 - Springer
Background Malaria is a mosquito-transmitted disease that kills more than half a million
people annually. The lack of effective malaria vaccines and recently increasing malaria …

The complexities of blood‐feeding patterns in mosquitoes and sandflies and the burden of disease: A minireview

F Bursali, M Touray - Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquitoes and sandflies exhibit a wide range of blood feeding patterns, targeting a wide
range of vertebrate species, including birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, for proteins …

Malaria parasitic detection using a new Deep Boosted and Ensemble Learning framework

HM Asif, SH Khan, TJ Alahmadi, T Alsahfi… - Complex & Intelligent …, 2024 - Springer
Malaria is a potentially fatal plasmodium parasite injected by female anopheles mosquitoes
that infect red blood cells and cause millions of lifelong disability worldwide yearly. However …

Immune reactions of vector insects to parasites and pathogens

NA Ratcliffe, CB Mello, HC Castro, P Dyson… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
This overview initially describes insect immune reactions and then brings together present
knowledge of the interactions of vector insects with their invading parasites and pathogens …

Novel systems to study vector-pathogen interactions in malaria

M Parres-Mercader, A Pance… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Some parasitic diseases, such as malaria, require two hosts to complete their lifecycle: a
human and an insect vector. Although most malaria research has focused on parasite …

Mosquito bites and stage-specific antibody responses against Plasmodium falciparum in southern Ghana

SS Kwapong, KK Asare, KA Kusi, F Pappoe, N Ndam… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background The human host elicits specific immune responses after exposure to various life
stages of the malaria parasite as well as components of mosquito saliva injected into the …

Malaria transmission blocking compounds: a patent review

S Consalvi, C Tammaro, F Appetecchia… - Expert Opinion on …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Despite substantial progress in the field, malaria remains a global health issue
and currently available control strategies are not sufficient to achieve eradication. Agents …