Background: Treatment of vivax malaria with primaquine prevents the relapse of infection from residual liver stages of the parasite. Inadequate dosage is related to a higher relapse risk.

Scientists have fabricated two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing blood parasites. They designed netting systems to deliver antimalarial drugs called Endochin-like Quinolones (ELQs) that ...

The CDC adds that the patients had contracted P. vivax within the last two months – a strain of malaria that typically produces milder symptoms or can even be asymptomatic but still can prove ...

NEW YORK – A team led by investigators at Institut Pasteur has commenced work on a new lateral flow assay that could be used to detect the presence of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium vivax in ...

vivax. In 1935, McElroy said, there were 100,000 malaria cases in the US. In an effort to limit its impact in the southeastern US during World War II, particularly around military training bases ...

Plasmodium vivax poses a particular challenge to malaria control because it can lie dormant in the liver and cause relapses weeks or months after the initial infection. In Pakistan, one of the ...

Researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group want to understand more about plasmodium vivax - a type of malaria that can remain dormant in the liver. It can reactivate months or even years after a ...

Aizawl: In Mizoram, malaria has resulted in 46 fatalities over the past five years since 2020. However, among the 873 cases ...

Tying those individual stories to the long evolutionary history of malaria led to several important findings. Samples containing the genome of Plasmodium vivax, a malaria-causing parasite ...

Malaria is one of the most ubiquitous diseases known--there are more than 125 different species of malaria that infect mammals, birds and reptiles, which indicates an early origin. It has probably ...

Malaria leads to seizures, coma, and death, with a mortality rate of 15.3 per 100,000 cases. Typhoid fever, on the other hand ...