Filarial worms reduce Plasmodium infectivity in mosquitoes.

• Main Authors: Matthew T Aliota (Author), Cheng-Chen Chen (Author), Henry Dagoro (Author), Jeremy F Fuchs (Author), Bruce M Christensen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Co-occurrence of malaria and filarial worm parasites has been reported, but little is known about the interaction between filarial worm and malaria parasites with the same Anopheles vector. Herein, we present data evaluating the interaction between Wuchereria bancrofti and Anopheles punctulatus in P...