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Article: Malaria Parasite's Genes Mapped
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- October 2, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Researchers have sequenced the genes both for the
parasite that causes malaria and for the mosquito that spreads it
to humans.
The double triumph gives medical science new weapons in the war on
a disease that kills almost 3 million people a year.
In parallel efforts that involved more than 160 researchers in 10
countries, scientists mapped the genes for Plasmodium falciparum,
the deadliest form of malaria, and for Anopheles gambiae, a mosquito
that prefers human prey and spreads malaria to millions with its bloodsucking
bite.
The British journal Nature is publishing the complete genetic sequence
of P. falciparum, and the U.S. journal Science is ...