London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine Audio News - Lshtm Podcast

An international group of scientists has found that one of the common types of malaria parasite — plasmodium ovale — is actually two completely different species, but living side by side in the same human communities. One of the researchers involved with the discovery (just published in the Journal of Infectious Disease), Colin Sutherland of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains to Sarah Maxwell how this finding is not only interesting scientifically but could also help in the global fight against malaria.