Indonesia has been developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based malaria detection system, which will use data from many ...

New research has revealed that Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium), a parasitic infection affecting millions globally, ...

Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

Essential Genome of Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Knowlesi Mapped Feb. 6, 2025 — A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a ...

Nearly one million people worldwide are plagued annually by cutaneous leishmaniasis, a devastating skin infection caused by ...

Microscopy or rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are currently used for the diagnosis of malaria in pregnancy but are insensitive to sequestration or low-level parasite burdens, complicating malaria ...

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that is caused by Plasmodium parasites. Patients with malaria experience flu-like symptoms and, in severe cases, the disease can progress to neurological ...

but also to block the transmission of the malaria parasite. Last year, Novartis and the MMV reported the results of a phase 2 open-label study in 524 adults and children with acute uncomplicated ...

Even after successful malaria treatment, recovery can take weeks or months, depending on the severity and person's health ...

Both conditions are mainly caused by bacteria but can also be triggered by viruses, fungi, and parasites. Blood poisoning is not a medical term but one that infers a severe whole-body infection that ...

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