Recently in the news that Plasmodium Ovale which is not a very common type of malaria has been identified in a soldier in Kerala. What is Plasmodium Ovale? Let us study in detail including various ...

Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Thursday informed that a new genus of malaria called ''plasmodium ovale'' has been detected in the state. The disease was detected in a soldier who travelled from ...

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 ...

At a time when Kerala is grappling with a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the last few weeks, the health department of the state has detected a new genus of malaria called ‘plasmodium oval’, state ...

Approximately 1,300 cases of malaria are reported each year in the United States; nearly all of these cases occur in travelers, many of whom fail to receive or adhere to prescribed chemoprophylaxis or ...

Local spread of malaria is rare but cases are growing. In 2023, 10 locally acquired cases were reported in patients who had not travelled outside the United States. Since the 1970s, rates of malaria ...

An imported case of malaria, caused by a hitherto unfamiliar variant of the Plasmodium species (the malarial parasite), in the State, Plasmodium ovale, has been reported from the Kannur district ...

Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes clinically relevant articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by ...

When a person is bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito, sporozoites of malarial parasites are injected into the blood stream. Inside the blood, the sporozoites circulate before entering the ...