Blood meals from 'dead-end' vertebrate hosts enhance transmission potential of malaria-infected mosquitoes
A. K. Pathak, J. C. Shiau, R. S. d. F. Cury, D. E. Kyle
The paper shows that additional blood meals from bovine and canine hosts can enhance sporozoite migration in malaria-infected mosquitoes, with human and bovine blood showing more consistent reductions in extrinsic incubation period.
bioRxiv · Dec 24, 2022Ecology