Exploring the effects of novel inhibitors against malaria parasite invasion of human red blood cells

• Main Author: Hasim, Gabrielle Natasha
• Other Authors: Peter Preiser
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158656
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Plasmodium falciparum accounts for the largest number of global malaria deaths each year. The blood stage of these parasites is responsible for the clinical symptoms of malaria and begins when merozoites invade red blood cells via a series of protein-protein interactions between the host and parasit...