Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Background Leishmaniases are parasitic diseases present worldwide that are transmitted to
the vertebrate host by the bite of an infected sand fly during a blood feeding. Phlebotomine …

Background Mosquito saliva is a complex cocktail whose pharmacological properties play
an essential role in blood feeding by counteracting host physiological response to tissue …

Malaria parasites transmitted by mosquito bite are remarkably efficient in establishing
human infections. The infection process requires roughly 30 minutes and is highly complex …

Background. The modalities of malaria transmission along the Thailand-Myanmar border
are poorly understood. Here we address the relevance of using a specific Anopheles …

Background: Entomological surveillance for malaria is inherently resource-intensive and
produces crude population-level measures of vector exposure which are insensitive in low …

The changing epidemiology of Plasmodium vivax: Insights from conventional and novel
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This paper summarises key advances in defining the infectious reservoir for malaria and the
measurement of transmission for research and programmatic use since the Malaria …

Human IgG antibody response to Anopheles gambiae gSG6-P1 salivary peptide was
reported to be a pertinent indicator for assessing human exposure to mosquito bites and …

Heterozygous carriers of hemoglobin S and C (HbAS and HbAC) have a reduced risk of
severe malaria but are not protected from Plasmodium falciparum infection, suggesting that …