malaria

Blood type

... Duffy negative blood gives partial immunity to malaria . The Lutheran system describes a set of 21 antigens. Other systems include Colton , Kell , Kidd , Lewis , Landsteiner-Wiener , P , Yt or Cartwright , XG , Scianna , Dombrock , Chido/Rodgers , Kx , Gerbich , Cromer , Knops , I...

Parasitology

...as Plasmodium spp., the organism which causes malaria , Leishmania donovani , the organism which causes leishmaniasis and multicellular organisms such as Schistosoma spp., Wuchereria bancrofti and Necator americanus . Medical parasitology can involve drug development, epidimiological s...

Malaria

...or Physiology or Medicine in 1907 . Symptoms of malaria include fever , shivering , arthralgia (joint ...feeling of tingling in the skin, particularly with malaria caused by P. falciparum . Complications of malaria include coma and death if untreated—youn...

Evolution

...man sickle cell anemia conferring resistance to malaria ) Frequency-dependent selection , where the rare variants have a higher fitness. The central role of natural selection in evolutionary theory has given rise to a strong connection between that field and the study of ecology . Mutations that ...

Ebola

...a fever . One of the nurses assumed Lokela had malaria and gave him a quinine shot. When Lokela returned home from the hospital and died, the women of his family conducted a traditional African funeral for him. In preparation for this funeral, they removed all the blood and excreta from his body w...

Biodiversity

...uinine comes from cinchona tree (used to treat malaria ), digitalis from the foxglove plant (chronic heart trouble), and morphine from the poppy plant (pain relief). According the National Cancer Institute , over 70 % of the promising anti-cancer drugs come from plants in the tropical rainfores...