Malaria Renders Mice Susceptible to Mosquito Feeding When Gametocytes Are Most Infective
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology
- Vol. 69 (1) , 163-170
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3281292
Abstract
Mice infected with Plasmodium berghei, P. chabaudi or P. yoelii became lethargic and ceased to display normal antimosquito behavior. Periods of reduced defensiveness corresponded with maximum mosquito engorgement and with periods of maximum gametocyte infectivity to mosquitoes. Increased feeding success of mosquitoes during periods of peak gametocyte infectivity may be important to the natural maintenance of these malaria parasites.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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