Filarial worms reduce plasmodium infectivity in mosquitoes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Aliota, Matthew T ^a   Chen, Cheng Chen ^b   Dagoro, Henry ^c   Fuchs, Jeremy F ^a   Christensen, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILARIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOSQUITO; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 79952472659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000963     Document Type: Article

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