Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular insights into placental malaria. “This is a really lovely piece of science,” ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The study, published today as a ...

Two hemoglobin mutations, including one that causes sickle cell anemia, may protect people from severe malaria by gumming up the cellular machinery the parasite uses to transmit deadly proteins to the ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...

Malaria parasites undergo an extensive metamorphosis after invasion of erythrocytes. This induces an increase in the surface ...

Their red blood cells, containing some abnormal hemoglobin, tend to sickle when they are infected by the malaria parasite. Those infected cells flow through the spleen, which culls them out ...

When it comes to evading the human immune system, the malaria parasite ... they burst out and infect red blood cells. At this point they’re vulnerable because infected red blood cells are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Once inside the body, Babesia parasites invade and destroy red blood cells. This severely ...

Malaria itself is a parasite found in the red blood cells of an infected person. It can cause flu-like symptoms including fever, chills, shakes, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting, per the CDC.

The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. When infections such as malaria take hold in the body, red ...

for example malaria in travelers from countries without malaria with a parasite count of less than 2% infected red blood cells or less than 5% in people from malaria-endemic countries.