Scientists investigating ovale malaria, a form of the disease thought to be caused by a single species of parasite, have confirmed that the parasite is actually two similar but distinct species which ...

In a study appearing in Nature, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, reconstructed the evolutionary history and ...

The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds out the prospect of a safe, effective live vaccine. The study is published ...

A case report in BMC Infectious Diseases describes the first evidence of a Plasmodium falciparum–Plasmodium ovale co-infection in an Ivorian patient, in which dormant liver stages of P. ovale caused a ...

A national cross-sectional study of Ugandan children under five found 7% of microscopy-negative samples positive by PCR, ...

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified multiple species of bacteria that, when present in the gut, are linked to an increased risk of developing severe malaria in humans and ...

A new computational model suggests that certain mutations that block infection by the most dangerous species of malaria have not become widespread in people because of the parasite's effects on the ...