La proteína tipo complemento TEP1 es un determinante de la capacidad vectorial en el vector de la malaria Anopheles

Stephanie Blandin1, Shin-Hong Shiao, Luis F Moita

  • 1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

Cell
|March 10, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

La proteína del mosquito TEP1 mata a los parásitos de la malaria en el intestino. Este descubrimiento es clave para entender cómo los mosquitos transmiten la malaria y podría conducir a nuevas estrategias de control.

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