Malaria, a mosquito‐borne infectious disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium
continues to be a major health problem worldwide. The unicellular Plasmodium‐parasites …

Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) is a micronemal protein of apicomplexan parasites that
appears to be essential during the invasion of host cells. Immune responses to Plasmodium …

Apicomplexan parasites, including Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium sp., are obligate
intracellular protozoa. They enter into a host cell by attaching to and then creating an …

This 2e of Toxoplasma gondii reflects the significant advances in the field in the last 5 years,
including new information on the genomics, epigenomics and proteomics of T. gondii as well …

The apical complex is the instrument of invasion used by apicomplexan parasites, and the
conoid is a conspicuous feature of this apparatus found throughout this phylum. The conoid …

Rhoptries are specialized secretory organelles that are uniquely present within protozoan
parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. These obligate intracellular parasites comprise some …

The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum undergoes closed mitosis, which occurs within
an intact nuclear envelope, and differs significantly from its human host. Mitosis is …

Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and invade
hepatocytes as a first and obligatory step of the parasite life cycle in man. Hepatocyte …

ABSTRACT Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1) of Plasmodium merozoites is established
as a candidate molecule for inclusion in a human malaria vaccine and is strongly conserved …

One of the hallmarks of the parasitic phylum of Apicomplexa is the presence of highly
specialised, apical secretory organelles, called the micronemes and rhoptries that play …