Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax account for more than 95% of all human
malaria infections, and thus pose a serious public health challenge. To control and …

Malaria is a vector-borne infection caused by unicellular parasite of the genus Plasmodium.
Plasmodia are obligate intracellular parasites that are able to infect and replicate within the …

Plasmodium falciparum is the most prevalent and lethal of the malaria parasites infecting
humans, yet the origin and evolutionary history of this important pathogen remain …

Plasmodium vivax is the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America but is
absent from most of central Africa due to the near fixation of a mutation that inhibits the …

African apes harbour at least six Plasmodium species of the subgenus Laverania, one of
which gave rise to human Plasmodium falciparum. Here we use a selective amplification …

Malaria is the most deadly parasitic disease, affecting hundreds of millions of people
worldwide. Malaria parasites have been associated with their hosts for millions of years …

The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

Coevolution of humans and malaria parasites has generated an intricate balance between
the immune system of the host and virulence factors of the parasite, equilibrating maximal …

We propose that clonal evolution in micropathogens be defined as restrained recombination
on an evolutionary scale, with genetic exchange scarce enough to not break the prevalent …

African apes harbor at least twelve Plasmodium species, some of which have been a source
of human infection. It is now well established that Plasmodium falciparum emerged following …