Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Thursday informed that a new genus of malaria called ''plasmodium ovale'' has been detected in the state. The disease was detected in a soldier who travelled from ...

Approximately 1,300 cases of malaria are reported each year in the United States; nearly all of these cases occur in travelers, many of whom fail to receive or adhere to prescribed chemoprophylaxis or ...

There is no reason to worry as the health minister has said that the spread of the disease can be avoided with timely treatment and preventive measures At a time when Kerala is grappling with a ...

Malaria is a communicable disease caused by the parasite plasmodium. Four species of the plasmodium parasite cause malaria. They are: Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium ...

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are spread to humans by mosquitoes. The genomes of three human infective Plasmodium species are relatively well studied, especially P. falciparum, the ...

The health department has issued a caution against a new type of malaria Plasmodium Ovale. Health minister K K Shailaja said the new type of malaria, which is commonly found in western Africa, has ...

The genomes of the two least common species of human malaria parasites have been revealed in Nature by a team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international ...

Malaria is a very common and sometimes even a fatal disease which is caused by Plasmodium species and is transmitted to humans by the bite of a female anopheles mosquito. The plasmodium species are of ...

Check out what the area of Science and Technology has been upto this week. From ISRO’S 42nd Communication Satellite to a new kind of Plasmodium causing deadly malaria- Take a look at the detailed list ...

The prevalence of malaria infection in 102 paired maternal-blood and umbilical cord-blood samples was assessed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a holoendemic area in Kenya.

Wild-living chimpanzees and gorillas harbor a multitude of Plasmodium species, including six of the subgenus Laverania, one of which served as the progenitor of Plasmodium falciparum. Despite the ...