An obligatory step during the malaria infection cycle is the development of Plasmodium ... thus triggering the bloodstream stage of infection and the pathology that is associated with malaria.

The absence of functional hemagglutinin protein in this screen limited it to identifying genes involved in early stages of infection (viral ... replication in multiple-cycle growth.

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.