Protozoan Plasmodium parasites are the causative agents of malaria, a deadly disease that
continues to afflict hundreds of millions of people every year. Infections with malaria …

Eimeria species infect livestock in a host-specific manner and are the cause of the disease,
coccidiosis. Control of Eimeria species is essential and is currently dominated by …

Background Rodent malaria parasites (RMP) are used extensively as models of human
malaria. Draft RMP genomes have been published for Plasmodium yoelii, P. berghei ANKA …

Hosts can in principle employ two different strategies to defend themselves against
parasites: resistance and tolerance. Animals typically exhibit considerable genetic variation …

Discovering novel genes involved in immune evasion and drug resistance in the human
malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is of critical importance to global health. Such …

Malaria infections frequently consist of mixtures of drug-resistant and drug-sensitive
parasites. If crowding occurs, where clonal population densities are suppressed by the …

Artemisinin‐and artesunate‐resistant Plasmodium chabaudi mutants, AS‐ART and AS‐ATN,
were previously selected from chloroquine‐resistant clones AS‐30CQ and AS‐15CQ …

Competitive interactions between coinfecting genotypes of the same pathogen can impose
selection on virulence, but the direction of this selection depends on the mechanisms behind …

Across the globe, over 200 million annual malaria infections result in up to 660,000 deaths,
77% of which occur in children under the age of five years. Although prevention is important …

Apicomplexan parasites are responsible for a myriad of diseases in humans and livestock;
yet despite intensive effort, development of effective sub-unit vaccines remains a long-term …