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 …

Parasitic diseases represent major global health problems of immense proportion.
Schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African sleeping sickness …

The most virulent form of malaria is caused by waves of replication of blood stages of the
protozoan pathogen Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite divides within an intraerythrocytic …

A number of cysteine proteases of malaria parasites have been described, and many more
putative cysteine proteases are suggested by analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum …

Newly replicated Plasmodium falciparum parasites escape from host erythrocytes through a
tightly regulated process that is mediated by multiple classes of proteolytic enzymes …

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins coat the surface of extracellular
Plasmodium falciparum merozoites, of which several are highly validated candidates for …

Plasmodium parasites are the causative agent of human malaria, and the development of a
highly effective vaccine against infection, disease and transmission remains a key priority. It …

Malaria is a scourge of large swathes of the globe, stressing the need for a continuing effort
to better understand the biology of its aetiological agent. Like all pathogens of the phylum …