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High heterogeneity in the number of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> gametocytes in the bloodmeal of mosquitoes fed on the same host
1 Aug 2000
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the quantitative distribution of Plasmodiumfalciparum gametocytes into the vector bloodmeal, Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes were fed on 3 volunteers naturally infected with gametocytes. The content of each mosquito midgut was smeared on a microscope slide and Giemsa stained. The distribution of gametocytes ingested by mosquitoes followed a negative binomial distribution, with apparently constant...
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