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Nature Medicine 12, 220-224 (1 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm1350;

Quantitative imaging of Plasmodium transmission from mosquito to mammal

Rogerio Amino , Sabine Thiberge , B|[eacute]|atrice Martin , Susanna Celli , Spencer Shorte , Friedrich Frischknecht & Robert M|[eacute]|nard

Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, is transmitted by a mosquito into the dermis and must reach the liver before infecting erythrocytes and causing disease. We present here a quantitative, real-time analysis of the fate of parasites transmitted in a rodent system.

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