Vaccines. Malaria parasite outwits the immune system.
Given a few million years of evolutionary practice, the malaria parasite has become extraordinarily proficient at one task: evading the immune system of its human hosts. This it does in four distinct life stages.
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D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000276:immunology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000469:parasitology; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000276:immunology / Q000469:parasitology*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology
D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan