MIMM 413 Lecture : feb 15 2012- dr. rorbach.docx
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The number of cases is probably too low. Almost everyone who lives in africa has a low level of parasites in the blood (so the numbers can go up to a billion). The children are mainly affected, as are the women (with maternal malaria). Facts about malaria (2: malariae and p. ovale are not very common. P. vivax is more in southern asia, and p. falciparum is the lethal malaria and the problem in africa. Everything we will discuss will be about p. falciparum, because this is where most of the research is done. P. malariae and p. ovale are not very well studied because we do not have lab strains of them, the same with p. vivax (but it is getting better here). 35% of the world"s population live in regions where there is a risk of acquiring malaria. Studies are being done to see what would happen because of climate change.