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Protocol for Plasmodium falciparum Infections in Mosquitoes and Infection Phenotype Determination
Published on: July 4, 2007
Pathology of malaria-infected mosquitoes
W A Maier1, H Becker-Feldman, H M Seitz
1The Authors are at the Institut fur Medizinsche Parasitologie, Universitat Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strosse, 5300 Bonn I, F.R.Germany.
Abstract:
Concepts of the basic case reproduction rate of malaria, or the vectorial capacity of malaria vectors, tend to assume that the behaviour of infected and non-infected mosquitoes will be similar. However, recent years have seen a series of studies demonstrating that mosquitoes infected with malaria or other parasites show many pathological features with important effects on their behaviour and on the transmission dynamics of the parasite. Parasitology Today will be featuring a series of reports discussing these effects and attempting to unravel the expected effects on parasite transmission dynamics; this article sets the scene.
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