Nature Medicine
1, 745 - 747 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0895-745
Transfection and malariaDawn M. Wesson
& Donald J. KrogstadDepartment of Tropical Medicine Tulane, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA The introduction of novel genes into mosquitoes and malaria parasites is now feasible, raising hopes for an effective attack on malaria.
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