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Mosquito transmission, growth phenotypes and the virulence of malaria parasites.
Malaria journal - 6 Dec 2013
Pollitt Laura C, Mackinnon Margaret J, Mideo Nicole, Read Andrew F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A series of elegant experiments was recently published which demonstrated that transmission of malaria parasites through mosquitoes elicited an attenuated growth phenotype, whereby infections grew more slowly and reached peak parasitaemia at least five-fold lower than parasites which had not been mosquito transmitted. To assess the implications of these results it is essential to understand whether...
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