Wolbachia Can Enhance Plasmodium Infection in Mosquitoes: Implications for Malaria Control?

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hughes, Grant L ^a   Rivero, Ana ^b   Rasgon, Jason L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84905470646     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004182     Document Type: Article

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