Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body’s immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, can shut down a key set of genes, rendering itself “immunologically invisible.”
“This finding provides another piece of the puzzle as to why malaria has been so difficult to eradicate,” said Dr. Francesca Florini, research associate in microbiology…
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