A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

Chief Officer for Preventive and Promotive, Janerose Tioko, stated that malaria accounted for 30 percent of the reported ...

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Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

It would mean a mosquito bite in regions of the world where the disease is endemic no longer carried a potential death sentence. Image: Malaria is spread by the Anopheles mosquito. Pic ...

This is critical when applied in the field for safety and economical reasons.” The research team tested the mosquitocidal ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

According to Memusi, research has shown that at 18 C it takes the malaria parasite 51 days to mature. The average life span of the female Anopheles mosquito is about three weeks. At lower temperatures ...