Mouse Anti-P. falciparum S antigen Monoclonal antibody for ELISA, WB. Suitable for use in ELISAand Western blot. Each laboratory should determine an optimum working titerfor use in its particular application. Other applications have not beentested but use in such assays should not necessarily be excluded.The most deadly of thefour Plasmodium species that cause human malaria is the protozoan parasitePlasmodium falciparum. Plasmodiumfalciparumis a protozoan parasite, one of the species of Plasmodium that cause malariain humans. It is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. P. falciparumis the most dangerous of these infections as P. falciparum (ormalignant) malaria has the highest rates of complications and mortality. Asof 2006 it accounted for 91% of all 247 million human malarial infections(98% in Africa) and 90% of the deaths. It is more prevalent in sub-SaharanAfrica than in other regions of the world; in most African countries, morethan 75% of cases were due to P.falciparum, whereas in most other countrieswith malaria transmission, other Plasmodial species predominate