Malaria: blood stage of the parasite recreated in vivo to help tackle the disease

Malaria remains a major public health problem, with 241 million cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, according to the latest WHO figures. Plasmodium vivax, the most widespread malaria agent, has characteristics that make it difficult to control and eliminate. None of the current treatments is able to eliminate "dormant" parasites in the liver, which are responsible for relapse. A study by scientists from the Institut Pasteur, published in Nature Communications, proposes a novel animal model to facilitate in vivo research on the parasite.

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