Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Malaria accounts for an enormous burden of disease globally, with Plasmodium falciparum
accounting for the majority of malaria, and P. vivax being a second important cause …

Plasmodium falciparum malaria, an infectious disease caused by a parasitic protozoan,
claims the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone and is a top public …

The most severe form of malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum. These parasites
invade human erythrocytes, and an essential step in this process involves the ligand PfRh5 …

During blood stage Plasmodium falciparum infection, merozoites invade uninfected
erythrocytes via a complex, multistep process involving a series of distinct receptor-ligand …

Erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum is central to the pathogenesis of malaria.
Invasion requires a series of extracellular recognition events between erythrocyte receptors …

Malaria is a major disease of humans caused by protozoan parasites from the genus
Plasmodium. It has a complex life cycle; however, asexual parasite infection within the blood …

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites of the obligate intracellular
Apicomplexa phylum the most deadly of which, Plasmodium falciparum, prevails in Africa …

Plasmodium falciparum parasites in the merozoite stage invade human erythrocytes and
cause malaria. Invasion requires multiple interactions between merozoite ligands and …

Several hundred malaria parasite proteins are exported beyond an encasing vacuole and
into the cytosol of the host erythrocyte, a process that is central to the virulence and viability …