Browsing by Subject "malaria"
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(2020-10-26)Malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases of the 21st Century, with 405,000 deaths annually. The visualization of stained blood smears with white light microscopy is still the gold standard for a proper diagnosis. Due ...
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(2014-12-17)The goal of this study was to develop drugs that exclusively affect pathogenic dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) without causing harm to the human counterpart. To achieve that goal, a well-known dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) ...
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Distribution patterns of the Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Diptera: Culicidae) species complex in Texas (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The primary vector of malaria in the eastern United States, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Say), was recently discovered to be a complex of five different cryptic species: A - An. quadrimaculatus, B - An. smaragdinus, C1 - An. ...
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(2014)Since its reappearance at the Military Demarcation Line in 1993, malaria has been occurring annually in Korea. Malaria is regarded as a third grade nationally notifiable disease susceptible to climate change. The objective ...
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(2013-02-05)Some of the primary vectors of human malaria include female mosquitoes from the Anopheles gambiae complex, which is comprised of at least six different species within the genus Anopheles, including A. gambiae (M/S forms), ...
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(2014-08-22)When operating aberrantly, enzymes contribute to the mechanisms of many different diseases, and as such, have proven to be promising targets for the discovery of new drugs. Proteases catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds ...
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(2021-01-18)Malaria is a parasitic disease that affects millions around the globe annually and is one of the greatest public health challenges in human history. While much has been accomplished towards eradication of the disease, ...
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(2011-08-08)Structural biology lays the molecular foundation for the modern field of life sciences. In this thesis, X-ray crystallography is the primary resource for atomic detail structural information and is the major technology ...