Scientists uncover hidden secrets of malaria transmission

NCT ID NCT06064591

Summary

This study aims to understand how malaria parasites change inside infected people to become capable of spreading to mosquitoes. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 458 participants in Burkina Faso, including people with severe malaria, mild malaria, and those without symptoms. They developed a new tool to measure how quickly parasites transform and identified factors in the human body that might trigger this change.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé - Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro

    Nanoro, Burkina Faso

  • Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

    Antwerp, Antwerp, 2000, Belgium

  • Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)

    Maputo, Mozambique

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