plasmodium

Improved surveillance to track the spread of resistant plasmodia is critical to maintaining progress, including using molecular and genomic techniques.

The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.

The study also found that Ivermectin can kill plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite carried by female mosquitoes, when administered to humans.

Recurring malaria - caused by the parasite plasmodium vivax - is the most common type of malaria outside Sub-Saharan Africa.

Parasites such as the four species of plasmodium that cause malaria in humans infect large populations worldwide and kill hundreds of thousands of people.