アノフェレス・ガンビアの謎めいたサブグループは,人間のマラリア寄生虫に対して非常に敏感です

Michelle M Riehle1, Wamdaogo M Guelbeogo, Awa Gneme

  • 1Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insect Vector Genetics and Genomics, Department of Parasitology and Mycology, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, Paris 75015, France.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 5, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,西アフリカでアフリカのマラリアベクトルであるAnopheles gambiaeの新しいエクソフィルのサブグループを発見した. この豊富なサブグループは,Plasmodium falciparumに敏感であり,マラリアの伝播ダイナミクスに影響を与えます.

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