MALARIA PARASITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malaria parasite mean? 

• MALARIA PARASITE (noun)
  The noun MALARIA PARASITE has 1 sense:

1. parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

  Familiarity information: MALARIA PARASITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALARIA PARASITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

malaria parasite; plasmodium; Plasmodium vivax

Hypernyms ("malaria parasite" is a kind of...):

sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)

Holonyms ("malaria parasite" is a member of...):

genus Plasmodium (type genus of the family Plasmodiidae)

 Context examples 

In another just-released study in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists in Thailand have found widespread malaria parasite resistance to artemisinin and combination therapies using artemisinin, considered the gold standard treatment.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

Researchers indicated that the compound MMV390048 could block all life cycle stages of the malaria parasite.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)

Similar in structure and activity to chloroquine, amodiaquine is effective against some chloroquine-resistant strains, particularly Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite.

(Amodiaquine, NCI Thesaurus)

An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant to one of the currently-used drugs.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

The new findings show that plasmepsin V is also essential in a subset of parasites called gametocytes (sexual form of the malaria parasite) that transition to infect the mosquito.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Working with ‘Eve’, the research team discovered that in fact, triclosan affects parasite growth by specifically inhibiting an entirely different enzyme of the malaria parasite, called DHFR.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

Australian scientists have successfully blocked the deadliest malaria parasite —- Plasmodium falciparum — in its transmission stage, paving the way for developing preventative therapies to stop the spread of the disease.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Scientists have known for some time that triclosan also inhibits the growth in culture of the malaria parasite Plasmodium during the blood-stage, and assumed that this was because it was targeting ENR, which is found in the liver.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

New drug development for malaria is focused on all stages of the malaria parasite’s lifecycle — liver, blood and gametocyte.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)