Sex and death: the effects of innate immune factors on the sexual reproduction of malaria parasites.
Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites from mating is a major goal of biomedicine, but its effectiveness could be compromised if parasit...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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