Plasmodium falciparum

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1,2,4-Trioxanes as potential antimalarial agents. 
  • A Thermal Exhaust Port on the Death Star of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes. 
  • A cross-sectional survey of Plasmodium falciparum pfcrt mutant haplotypes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
  • A deep sequencing approach to estimate Plasmodium falciparum complexity of infection (COI) and explore apical membrane antigen 1 diversity. 
  • A human monoclonal antibody prevents malaria infection by targeting a new site of vulnerability on the parasite. 
  • A role for fetal hemoglobin and maternal immune IgG in infant resistance to Plasmodium falciparum malaria. 
  • A set of microsatellite markers to differentiate Plasmodium falciparum progeny of four genetic crosses. 
  • Absence of putative artemisinin resistance mutations among Plasmodium falciparum in Sub-Saharan Africa: a molecular epidemiologic study. 
  • Adaptive evolution and fixation of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum genotypes in pregnancy-associated malaria: 9-year results from the QuEERPAM study. 
  • Amodiaquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as treatment for chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Rwanda. 
  • An intrinsic oscillator drives the blood stage cycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Antenatal receipt of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine does not exacerbate pregnancy-associated malaria despite the expansion of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum: clinical outcomes from the QuEERPAM study. 
  • Artemisinin combination therapies and malaria parasite drug resistance: the game is afoot. 
  • Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. 
  • Artemisinin resistance phenotypes and K13 inheritance in a Plasmodium falciparum cross and Aotus model. 
  • Assessing the safety and efficacy of a test-based, targeted donor screening strategy to minimize transfusion transmitted malaria. 
  • Automated Detection of P. falciparum Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Quantitative Phase Images of Unstained Cells. 
  • Born to sweet delight: Using natural models of malaria protection to understand and neutralize P. falciparum pathogenesis. 
  • Cell-mediated immune responses to vaccine peptides derived from the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Changes in the levels of chemokines and cytokines in the placentas of women with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. 
  • Characterization of Plasmodium liver stage inhibition by halofuginone. 
  • Characterization of a UBC13 kinase in Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Chloroquine resistance of Plasmodium falciparum is associated with severity of disease in Nigerian children. 
  • Complexity of the msp2 locus and the severity of childhood malaria, in south-western Nigeria. 
  • Decreased circulating macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) protein and blood mononuclear cell MIF transcripts in children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. 
  • Deorphaning pyrrolopyrazines as potent multi-target antimalarial agents. 
  • Developmental allometry and paediatric malaria. 
  • Dihydroquinazolinone inhibitors of proliferation of blood and liver stage malaria parasites. 
  • Direct Estimation of Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum Rapid Diagnostic Test for Active Case Detection in a High-Transmission Community Setting. 
  • Discovery of Antimicrobial Lipodepsipeptides Produced by a Serratia sp. within Mosquito Microbiomes. 
  • Discovery of Dual-Stage Malaria Inhibitors with New Targets. 
  • Discovery of novel targets of quinoline drugs in the human purine binding proteome. 
  • Diversity-oriented synthesis yields novel multistage antimalarial inhibitors. 
  • Early Endothelial Activation Precedes Glycocalyx Degradation and Microvascular Dysfunction in Experimentally Induced Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax Infection. 
  • Effect of Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive therapy for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Efficacy of chloroquine on Plasmodium falciparum transmitted at Amani, eastern Usambara Mountains, north-east Tanzania: an area where malaria has recently become endemic. 
  • Efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy, Mansa, Zambia. 
  • Erythrocyte invasion profiles are associated with a common invasion ligand polymorphism in Senegalese isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Exploring the lower thermal limits for development of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Expression of human malaria parasite purine nucleoside phosphorylase in host enzyme-deficient erythrocyte culture. Enzyme characterization and identification of novel inhibitors. 
  • Fever in patients with mixed-species malaria. 
  • Genetic Evidence of Importation of Drug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum to Guatemala from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  • Genetic diversity of the msp-1 locus and symptomatic malaria in south-west Nigeria. 
  • Genotyping cognate Plasmodium falciparum in humans and mosquitoes to estimate onward transmission of asymptomatic infections. 
  • Glycocalyx Breakdown Is Associated With Severe Disease and Fatal Outcome in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. 
  • Griseofulvin impairs intraerythrocytic growth of Plasmodium falciparum through ferrochelatase inhibition but lacks activity in an experimental human infection study. 
  • Hemoglobin consumption by P. falciparum in individual erythrocytes imaged via quantitative phase spectroscopy. 
  • Hemoglobinopathies: slicing the Gordian knot of Plasmodium falciparum malaria pathogenesis. 
  • High-resolution micro-epidemiology of parasite spatial and temporal dynamics in a high malaria transmission setting in Kenya. 
  • Higher production of peripheral blood macrophage migration inhibitory factor in healthy children with a history of mild malaria relative to children with a history of severe malaria. 
  • Host iron status and iron supplementation mediate susceptibility to erythrocytic stage Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Hyperendemic malaria transmission in areas of occupation-related travel in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Identification and validation of tetracyclic benzothiazepines as Plasmodium falciparum cytochrome bc1 inhibitors. 
  • Identification of Hsp90 Inhibitors with Anti-Plasmodium Activity. 
  • Immunity to malaria after administration of ultra-low doses of red cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Immunosuppressant target protein FKBP12 is required for P-glycoprotein function in yeast. 
  • Impact of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Resistance on Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Therapy for Malaria in Pregnancy at Clearing Infections and Preventing Low Birth Weight. 
  • Impact of intermittent screening and treatment for malaria among school children in Kenya: a cluster randomised trial. 
  • Impaired cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes containing sickle hemoglobin. 
  • Impaired nitric oxide bioavailability and L-arginine reversible endothelial dysfunction in adults with falciparum malaria. 
  • In silico Screening and Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum Protein Kinase 5 (PK5) Inhibitors. 
  • In vivo and in vitro susceptibility to chloroquine of Plasmodium falciparum in Kinshasa and Mbuji-Mayi, Zaire. 
  • Increased Susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum in Infants is associated with Low, not High, Placental Malaria Parasitemia. 
  • Increased prevalence of dhfr and dhps mutants at delivery in Malawian pregnant women receiving intermittent preventive treatment for malaria. 
  • Increased risk of low birth weight in women with placental malaria associated with P. falciparum VAR2CSA clade. 
  • Independent lineages of highly sulfadoxine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum haplotypes, eastern Africa. 
  • Inhibition of endothelial activation: a new way to treat cerebral malaria? 
  • Interaction between acute diarrhoea and falciparum malaria in Nigerian children. 
  • Interactions Between Antenatal Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine, Drug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Parasites, and Delivery Outcomes in Malawi. 
  • Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children and infants in northern Tanzania. 
  • Kinetic and Cross-Sectional Studies on the Genesis of Hypoargininemia in Severe Pediatric Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. 
  • Lack of an association between antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum glycosylphosphatidylinositols and malaria-associated placental changes in Cameroonian women with preterm and full-term deliveries. 
  • Latent transcriptional variations of individual Plasmodium falciparum uncovered by single-cell RNA-seq and fluorescence imaging. 
  • Lessons from malaria control to elimination: case study in Hainan and Yunnan provinces. 
  • Liver-stage malaria parasites vulnerable to diverse chemical scaffolds. 
  • Longitudinal studies of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in pregnant women living in a rural Cameroonian village with high perennial transmission. 
  • Methods to Investigate the Regulatory Role of Small RNAs and Ribosomal Occupancy of Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Microarray analyses reveal strain-specific antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 variants following natural infection and vaccination. 
  • Minimal Impact by Antenatal Subpatent Plasmodium falciparum Infections on Delivery Outcomes in Malawian Women: A Cohort Study. 
  • Modeling asymptomatic infections and work-related human circulation as drivers of unstable malaria transmission in low-prevalence areas: A study in the Northern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Modelling the incremental benefit of introducing malaria screening strategies to antenatal care in Africa. 
  • Molecular malaria epidemiology: mapping and burden estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007. 
  • Multiplex assay for simultaneous measurement of antibodies to multiple Plasmodium falciparum antigens. 
  • Overlap Extension Barcoding for the Next Generation Sequencing and Genotyping of Plasmodium falciparum in Individual Patients in Western Kenya. 
  • Parasite prevalence: a static measure of dynamic infections. 
  • Parasitologic and clinical efficacy of 25 and 50 mg/kg of chloroquine for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Rwandan children. 
  • Patchy ischemic retinal whitening. 
  • Pathologic changes associated with fatal Plasmodium falciparum infection in the Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus boliviensis). 
  • Permethrin-impregnated curtains and bed-nets prevent malaria in western Kenya. 
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and Hsp70 protect Plasmodium falciparum from heat-induced cell death. 
  • Plasma Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 concentrations are associated with malaria severity and mortality in Tanzanian children. 
  • Plasmodium chaperonin TRiC/CCT identified as a target of the antihistamine clemastine using parallel chemoproteomic strategy. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum malaria: band 3 as a possible receptor during invasion of human erythrocytes. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine resistance is geographically and genetically clustered within the DR Congo. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum, anaemia and cognitive and educational performance among school children in an area of moderate malaria transmission: baseline results of a cluster randomized trial on the coast of Kenya. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes adhere both in the intervillous space and on the villous surface of human placenta by binding to the low-sulfated chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan receptor. 
  • Platelet factor 4 and Duffy antigen required for platelet killing of Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Polysome profiling of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 
  • Pooled deep sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum isolates: an efficient and scalable tool to quantify prevailing malaria drug-resistance genotypes. 
  • Potentiation of cell-mediated immune responses directed against P. falciparum sporozoite peptide vaccine by immunomodulators. 
  • Proteome-wide analysis reveals widespread lysine acetylation of major protein complexes in the malaria parasite. 
  • Providing lipid-based nutrient supplement during pregnancy does not reduce the risk of maternal P falciparum parasitaemia and reproductive tract infections: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Qualified Biolayer Interferometry Avidity Measurements Distinguish the Heterogeneity of Antibody Interactions with Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein Antigens. 
  • Quantification of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 in cerebrospinal spinal fluid from cerebral malaria patients. 
  • Quantification of the burden and consequences of pregnancy-associated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  • Rapid Diagnostic Test Performance Assessed Using Latent Class Analysis for the Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum Placental Malaria. 
  • Reply to Harrington et al. 
  • Resistance mutations at the lipid substrate binding site of Plasmodium falciparum protein farnesyltransferase. 
  • Sensitive DNA detection and SNP discrimination using ultrabright SERS nanorattles and magnetic beads for malaria diagnostics. 
  • Sexual reproduction and the evolution of microbial pathogens. 
  • Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Distinct Gene Expression and Heterogeneity in Male and Female Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes. 
  • Structural basis for binding and selectivity of antimalarial and anticancer ethylenediamine inhibitors to protein farnesyltransferase. 
  • Structure-based design and synthesis of potent, ethylenediamine-based, mammalian farnesyltransferase inhibitors as anticancer agents. 
  • Suppression of prostaglandin E2 by malaria parasite products and antipyretics promotes overproduction of tumor necrosis factor-alpha: association with the pathogenesis of childhood malarial anemia. 
  • Systematic comparison of two methods to measure parasite density from malaria blood smears. 
  • The A581G Mutation in the Gene Encoding Plasmodium falciparum Dihydropteroate Synthetase Reduces the Effectiveness of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Preventive Therapy in Malawian Pregnant Women. 
  • The changing landscape of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
  • The cytoplasmic prolyl-tRNA synthetase of the malaria parasite is a dual-stage target of febrifugine and its analogs. 
  • The diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infection using a new antigen detection system. 
  • The geography of malaria genetics in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A complex and fragmented landscape. 
  • Trans-kingdom small RNA transfer during host-pathogen interactions: The case of P. falciparum and erythrocytes. 
  • Translocation of sickle cell erythrocyte microRNAs into Plasmodium falciparum inhibits parasite translation and contributes to malaria resistance. 
  • Treatment of erythrocytes with the 2-cys peroxiredoxin inhibitor, Conoidin A, prevents the growth of Plasmodium falciparum and enhances parasite sensitivity to chloroquine. 
  • Ultrastructural localization of erythrocyte cytoskeletal and integral membrane proteins in Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. 
  • Using context to improve protein domain identification. 
  • [LMP-420, a new therapeutic approach for cerebral malaria?]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cunningham, Coleen Kathryn, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
  • O'Meara, Wendy P, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases