BHAWANIPATNA: Malaria continues to be major public health challenge in Odisha and districts like Kalahandi, Rayagada, ...

Treatment failure for Plasmodium falciparum malaria is increasing in nonendemic countries. A session organized by the British Infection Association at European Society of Clinical Microbiology and ...

symptom-free from malaria, and protected from disease. Using advanced genetic engineering, researchers deleted two critical parasite genes, Mei2 and LINUP, from the Pf genome. These deletions ...

In a British Medical Journal (BMJ) study of 85,000 participants across various countries in Africa, Abbott’s SD Bioline Malaria Ag Pf was the most common rapid diagnostic test brand. False ...

Despite increased malaria control efforts, recent reports indicate that over 1.2 million deaths due to malaria occurred in 2010. Pregnant women represent a particularly vulnerable risk group as ...

With the changing weather, cases of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and malaria are increasing rapidly. But malaria disease increases rapidly not only in the rainy season but also in summer.

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers ...

China's success in achieving malaria-free status in 2021 offers crucial lessons for the global malaria fight, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The BMJ today. But they ...

This new solution combines sample preparation and quantitative PCR (qPCR) into a single workflow, providing a rapid and accessible tool for detecting malaria-causing parasites from blood samples.

Launched in 1946 to combat malaria, the CDC has experienced severe mission creep over the past several decades. Almost contrary to its original objective of controlling and preventing communicable ...