Live <italic toggle="yes">In Vivo</italic> Imaging of <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut
ABSTRACT The mosquito midgut is a critical barrier that Plasmodium parasites must overcome to complete their developmental cycle and be transmitted to a new vertebrate host. Previous confocal studies with fixed infected midguts showed that ookinetes traverse midgut epithelial cells and cause irrever...
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American Society for Microbiology
2020-10-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00692-20 |