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The Plasmodium bottleneck: malaria parasite losses in the mosquito vector

Nearly one million people are killed every year by the malaria parasite Plasmodium. Although the disease-causing forms of the parasite exist only in the human blood, mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles are the obligate vector for transmission. Here, we review the parasite life cycle in the vector and...

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Autores principales: Smith, Ryan C, Vega-Rodríguez, Joel, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4156458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25185005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276130597