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Anopheles Salivary Gland Architecture Shapes Plasmodium Sporozoite Availability for Transmission

Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZs) must traverse the mosquito salivary glands (SGs) to reach a new vertebrate host and continue the malaria disease cycle. Although SGs can harbor thousands of sporozoites, only 10 to 100 are deposited into a host during probing. To determine how the SGs might function as...

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Autores principales: Wells, Michael B., Andrew, Deborah J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01238-19