A study recently published in Nature links reduced calorie nutritional intake of host mice with (i) reduced severity of cerebral malaria, (ii) decreased parasitemia, and (iii) activation of a nutrient-sensing pathway that regulates the parasite's proliferation rate. Here, we discuss these findings in the context of human malaria pathology and Plasmodium kinomics.
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