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Nature Medicine 12, 170 - 171 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0206-170
Malaria parasites up close
Malcolm K Jones1 & Michael F Good1
- The authors are at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia. e-mail: michael.good@qimr.edu.au
Abstract
Real-time imaging of malaria sporozoites in mammalian skin and lymph nodes gives new insight into parasite migratory behavior and transit through vasculature (pages 220–224).
In 1898, Ronald Ross observed microscopic rods within the mouthparts of Anopheles mosquitoes that he had previously exposed to malaria-infected birds. Ross reasoned that the rods were infectious stages of malaria, and subsequent investigations confirmed that mammals and birds become infected with malaria by the bite of an infected mosquito.
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