Traditional methods to controlling malaria have met great challenges due to emergence and rapid spread of the drug-resistant strains of the parasite and insecticide-resistant mosquito vectors.

特别是近几年来由于抗药性疟原虫虫株及抗杀虫剂蚊媒的产生及蔓延，传统防治疟疾的方法受到新的挑战，因此研制一种有效的疟疾疫苗是疟疾防治的重要替代途径。

The route all strains of the most deadly malaria parasite use to enter red blood cells has been identified by researchers at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge.

剑桥大学桑格研究院的研究人员发现了绝大多数致命疟原虫进入人体红细胞的途径。