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RSS FeedsHow Malaria Tricks the Immune System
(World News Science)

 
 

7 december 2017 12:40:49

 
How Malaria Tricks the Immune System
(World News Science)
 


Global efforts to eradicate malaria are crucially dependent on scientists` ability to outsmart the malaria parasite. And Plasmodium falciparum is notoriously clever: It is quick to develop resistance against medications and has such a complex life cycle that blocking it effectively with a vaccine has thus far proved elusive. In a new study reported in Nature Communications, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, together with collaborators in Ireland and Australia, have shown that Plasmodium falciparum is even more devious than previously thought: Not only does it hide from the body`s immune defenses, it employs an active strategy to deceive the immune system. Among transmittable...


 
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