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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
Mosquitoes and transmission of malaria parasites - Not just vectors
Malaria Journal, Volume 3, Article 39, Year 2004
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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. © 2004 Paul et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Paul, Richard P.C.
France, Paris
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Senegal, Dakar
Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Diallo, Mawlouth R.
Senegal, Dakar
Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Brey, Paul Trevor
France, Paris
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Statistics
Citations: 56
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1475-2875-3-39
ISSN:
14752875
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study