Increased circulation time of Plasmodium falciparum underlies persistent asymptomatic infection in the dry season

CM Andrade, H Fleckenstein, R Thomson-Luque… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The dry season is a major challenge for Plasmodium falciparum parasites in many malaria
endemic regions, where water availability limits mosquito vectors to only part of the year …

Transcriptomic studies of malaria: a paradigm for investigation of systemic host-pathogen interactions

HJ Lee, A Georgiadou, TD Otto, M Levin… - Microbiology and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Transcriptomics, the analysis of genome-wide RNA expression, is a common approach to
investigate host and pathogen processes in infectious diseases. Technical and bioinformatic …

The role of PfEMP1 as targets of naturally acquired immunity to childhood malaria: prospects for a vaccine

PC Bull, AI Abdi - Parasitology, 2016 - cambridge.org
The Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 antigens that are inserted onto
the surface of P. falciparum infected erythrocytes play a key role both in the pathology of …

[HTML][HTML] Refining the transcriptome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using amplification-free RNA-seq

L Chappell, P Ross, L Orchard, TJ Russell, TD Otto… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Plasmodium parasites undergo several major developmental transitions during
their complex lifecycle, which are enabled by precisely ordered gene expression programs …

[HTML][HTML] The Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome in severe malaria reveals altered expression of genes involved in important processes including surface antigen …

GQ Tonkin-Hill, L Trianty, R Noviyanti, HHT Nguyen… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Within the human host, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is exposed to multiple
selection pressures. The host environment changes dramatically in severe malaria, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum transcription in different clinical presentations of malaria associates with circulation time of infected erythrocytes

R Thomson-Luque, L Votborg-Novél, W Ndovie… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Following Plasmodium falciparum infection, individuals can remain asymptomatic, present
with mild fever in uncomplicated malaria cases, or show one or more severe malaria …

A novel computational pipeline for var gene expression augments the discovery of changes in the Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome during transition from in vivo …

C Andradi-Brown, JS Wichers-Misterek, H von Thien… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The pathogenesis of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria involves cytoadhesive
microvascular sequestration of infected erythrocytes, mediated by P. falciparum erythrocyte …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding P. falciparum asymptomatic infections: a proposition for a transcriptomic approach

KM Kimenyi, K Wamae, LI Ochola-Oyier - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is still a significant public health burden in the tropics. Infection with malaria causing
parasites results in a wide range of clinical disease presentations, from severe to …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquito Passage Dramatically Changes var Gene Expression in Controlled Human Plasmodium falciparum Infections

A Bachmann, M Petter, R Krumkamp, M Esen… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Virulence of the most deadly malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is linked to the variant
surface antigen Pf EMP1, which is encoded by about 60 var genes per parasite genome …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled human malaria infection with Plasmodium falciparum demonstrates impact of naturally acquired immunity on virulence gene expression

A Bachmann, E Bruske, R Krumkamp, L Turner… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria is linked to the variant surface antigen
Pf EMP1, which mediates tethering of infected erythrocytes to the host endothelium and is …