Article
The Sporozoite's Journey Through the Mosquito: A Critical Examination of Host and Parasite Factors Required for Salivary Gland Invasion
2019-08-14
Abstract excerpt
Although much progress has been made in the fight against malaria, the number of people that contract this disease due to the bite of an Anopheline mosquito remains unacceptably high. A better understanding of the relationship between the Plasmodium parasite and its vector is of extreme importance and may allow for the development of new tools to fight the disease. In particular, new genome editing techniques may...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ef80ef18-8e1f-523b-ba43-a3202348ba64
- DOI
- 10.3389/fevo.2019.00284
