The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine offers the highest efficacy in the history of malaria vaccine development as reported by Mehreen Datoo and colleagues.1 The potential for saving the lives of African ...

Simple, rapid blood tests for malaria are already available, but they have limits, say the Washington University researchers. Testing blood can be expensive and technically challenging in rural ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Several vaccines that target different stages of the malaria parasite life cycle are now in clinical trials (see the table). The most ...

Malaria, a disease caused by the plasmodium parasite and transmitted through ... Diagnostic malaria testing remains indispensable for several compelling reasons: Oxford R21 represents a ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand ... variables are associated with the rapid spread of drug resistance.

The researchers could not find a single mosquito carrying the Microsporidia that was harbouring the malaria parasite. And lab experiments, published in Nature Communications, confirmed the microbe ...

Malaria, an illness caused by a parasite, is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. However, before reaching any conclusion, further testing ... to reports, rapid tests were ...

More than 60% of rapid diagnostic tests ... with a more precise PCR laboratory test were also positive for Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. Other tests also detected ...