Mosquito feeding assays to determine the infectiousness of naturally infected Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bousema, Teun ^a,b   Dinglasan, Rhoel R ^c   Morlais, Isabelle ^d,e   Gouagna, Louis C ^e,f   van Warmerdam, Travis ^c   Awono Ambene, Parfait H ^d   Bonnet, Sarah ^g   Diallo, Mouctar ^h   Coulibaly, Mamadou ^h   Tchuinkam, Timoléon ^d,i   Mulder, Bert ^j   Targett, Geoff ^a   Drakeley, Chris ^a   Sutherland, Colin ^a   Robert, Vincent ^e   Doumbo, Ogobara ^h   Touré, Yeya ^h   Graves, Patricia M ^k   Roeffen, Will ^b   Sauerwein, Robert ^b   Birkett, Ashley ^l   Locke, Emily ^l   Morin, Merribeth ^l   Wu, Yimin ^m   Churcher, Thomas S ⁿ   more..

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Emergentes dans l'Ocean Indien   (France)

^g Agence National de Sécurité Sanitaire   (France)

^h and Technologies of Bamako   (Mali)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^j Microbiology Laboratory Twente   (Netherlands)

^k JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative   (United States)

^m NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

ⁿ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT SKIN FEEDING ASSAY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALI; MEMBRANE FEEDING ASSAY; MOSQUITO FEEDING ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SENEGAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865161287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042821     Document Type: Article

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