Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Update on malaria

R Varo, C Chaccour, Q Bassat - Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2020 - Elsevier
Despite recent successful efforts to reduce the global malaria burden, this disease remains a
significant global health problem. Only in 2018, malaria caused 228 million clinical …

The influence of parasite infections on host immunity to co-infection with other pathogens

NA Mabbott - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Parasites have evolved a wide range of mechanisms that they use to evade or manipulate
the host's immune response and establish infection. The majority of the in vivo studies that …

Tissue damage control in disease tolerance

MP Soares, R Gozzelino, S Weis - Trends in immunology, 2014 - cell.com
Immune-driven resistance mechanisms are the prevailing host defense strategy against
infection. By contrast, disease tolerance mechanisms limit disease severity by preventing …

Integrated pathogen load and dual transcriptome analysis of systemic host-pathogen interactions in severe malaria

HJ Lee, A Georgiadou, M Walther… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The pathogenesis of infectious diseases depends on the interaction of host and pathogen. In
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, host and parasite processes can be assessed by dual RNA …

PRL2 regulates neutrophil extracellular trap formation which contributes to severe malaria and acute lung injury

X Du, B Ren, C Li, Q Li, S Kan, X Wang, W Bai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Excessive host immune responses contribute to severe malaria with high mortality. Here, we
show that PRL2 in innate immune cells is highly related to experimental malaria disease …

The role of PfEMP1 adhesion domain classification in Plasmodium falciparum pathogenesis research

JD Smith - Molecular and biochemical parasitology, 2014 - Elsevier
The Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) family has a key role
in parasite survival, transmission, and virulence. PfEMP1 are exported to the erythrocyte …

Dysregulation of angiopoietin-1 plays a mechanistic role in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria

SJ Higgins, LA Purcell, KL Silver, V Tran… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Cerebral malaria is a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Interventions targeting
the underlying pathophysiology of cerebral malaria may improve outcomes compared to …

Transcriptomic studies of malaria: a paradigm for investigation of systemic host-pathogen interactions

HJ Lee, A Georgiadou, TD Otto, M Levin… - Microbiology and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Transcriptomics, the analysis of genome-wide RNA expression, is a common approach to
investigate host and pathogen processes in infectious diseases. Technical and bioinformatic …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic factors leading to severe malaria and delayed care seeking in Ugandan children: a case–control study

A Mpimbaza, G Ndeezi, A Katahoire… - The American journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We studied associations between delayed care seeking, demographic, socioeconomic, and
geographic factors and likelihood of severe malaria in Ugandan children. The study was …