Plasmodium

Researchers observe liver invasion by malarial parasites

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 14th, 2005

Despite the efforts of governments and the World Health Organization to combine prevention measures and efforts to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes, the disease kills more than a million people each year.

Much is known about the microbes that cause the disease, tiny parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which have a complex life cycle involving several distinct phases and habitats. But many details of the organism's life cycle, including a critical stage - invasion of the liver - have escaped direct observation until now.

In their new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Ute Frevert et al., New York University,...

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