Merozoite surface proteins in red blood cell invasion, immunity and vaccines against malaria

JG Beeson, DR Drew, MJ Boyle, G Feng… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Epidemiology and infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax gametocytes in relation to malaria control and elimination

T Bousema, C Drakeley - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the tropics, with Plasmodium
falciparum responsible for the majority of the disease burden and P. vivax being the …

Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

M Manske, O Miotto, S Campino, S Auburn… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Malaria elimination strategies require surveillance of the parasite population for genetic
changes that demand a public health response, such as new forms of drug resistance,. Here …

Plasmodium Genomics and Genetics: New Insights into Malaria Pathogenesis, Drug Resistance, Epidemiology, and Evolution

X Su, KD Lane, L Xia, JM Sá… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

The Plasmodium bottleneck: malaria parasite losses in the mosquito vector

RC Smith, J Vega-Rodríguez… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Nearly one million people are killed every year by the malaria parasite Plasmodium.
Although the disease-causing forms of the parasite exist only in the human blood …

Challenges and strategies for developing efficacious and long-lasting malaria vaccines

JG Beeson, L Kurtovic, C Dobaño, DH Opi… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Although there has been major recent progress in malaria vaccine development, substantial
challenges remain for achieving highly efficacious and durable vaccines against …

Malaria parasite liver infection and exoerythrocytic biology

AM Vaughan, SHI Kappe - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
In their infection cycle, malaria parasites undergo replication and population expansions
within the vertebrate host and the mosquito vector. Host infection initiates with sporozoite …

Generating conditional gene knockouts in Plasmodium – a toolkit to produce stable DiCre recombinase-expressing parasite lines using CRISPR/Cas9

E Knuepfer, M Napiorkowska, C Van Ooij, AA Holder - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Successful establishment of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology in Plasmodium spp.
has provided a powerful tool to transform Plasmodium falciparum into a genetically more …

Identification of genes required for Plasmodium gametocyte-to-sporozoite development in the mosquito vector

CV Ukegbu, AR Gomes, M Giorgalli, M Campos… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases. Reverse genetic screens
offer a powerful approach to identify genes and molecular processes governing malaria …

Transmission-blocking vaccines: harnessing herd immunity for malaria elimination

PE Duffy - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) prevent community spread of malaria by
targeting mosquito sexual stage parasites, a life-cycle bottleneck, and will be used in …