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Mosquitoes and transmission of malaria parasites – not just vectors
- Source :
- Malaria Journal, Malaria Journal, 2004, 3 (1), pp.39. ⟨10.1186/1475-2875-3-39⟩, Malaria Journal, Vol 3, Iss 1, p 39 (2004)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2004.
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Abstract
- The regional malaria epidemics of the early 1900s provided the basis for much of our current understanding of malaria epidemiology. Colonel Gill, an eminent malariologist of that time, suggested that the explosive nature of the regional epidemics was due to a sudden increased infectiousness of the adult population. His pertinent observations underlying this suggestion have, however, gone unheeded. Here, the literature on Plasmodium seasonal behaviour is reviewed and three historical data sets, concerning seasonal transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, are examined. It is proposed that the dramatic seasonal increase in the density of uninfected mosquito bites results in an increased infectiousness of the human reservoir of infection and, therefore, plays a key role in "kick-starting" malaria parasite transmission.
- Subjects :
- Opinion
Plasmodium
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
lcsh:RC955-962
MESH: Malaria
MESH: Insect Vectors
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
MESH: Insect Bites and Stings
parasitic diseases
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
MESH: Animals
Disease Reservoirs
MESH: Age Factors
MESH: Disease Reservoirs
[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases
MESH: Humans
MESH: Plasmodium
Age Factors
Insect Bites and Stings
Feeding Behavior
Insect Vectors
Malaria
Culicidae
MESH: Feeding Behavior
Seasons
MESH: Culicidae
MESH: Seasons
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14752875
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Malaria Journal, Malaria Journal, 2004, 3 (1), pp.39. ⟨10.1186/1475-2875-3-39⟩, Malaria Journal, Vol 3, Iss 1, p 39 (2004)
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....9c88646ec02b07d99d3b0c4f1950e8a0