We’ve posted a number of articles over the years – see here and here – that deal with ways in which evolution can be used to improve malaria eradication. And we’d like to thank Rob Boyd for bringing another story on an evolutionary approach to...
Evmed correspondent Andrew Read has this interesting, counter-intuitive, piece about malaria resistance, written with colleague Mark Thomas. It is a commentary on a recent paper in PNAS by Viana, Hughes, Matthiopoulos, Ranson and Ferguson. “Delayed mortality...
Identifying broadly neutralizing antibodies against infectious agents such as influenza A viruses, HIV, and Plasmodium falciparum that display impressive degrees of antigenic variation is a major focus of investigators developing therapeutics and vaccines for...
By Lucy M. Carter, Björn F.C. Kafsack, Manuel Llinás, Nicole Mideo, Laura C. Pollitt, and Sarah E. Reece Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health published 4 June 2013, 10.1093/emph/eot011 Open access, full text here ABSTRACT: For vector-borne parasites such as...
Consequences of immunopathology for pathogen virulence evolution and public health: malaria as a case study (pages 278–291) Gráinne H. Long and Andrea L. Graham Article first published online: 17 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00178.x [This article is part...
