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Outdoor mosquitoes could defy control

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Previously unknown subgroup raises questions for malaria management in Africa.

Researchers have discovered a subspecies of malaria-carrying mosquito that lives outside, rather than in human homes as previously known types do. The finding, reported today in Science1, points to a potential gap in methods of malaria control.

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  1. Amy Maxmen
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Maxmen, A. Outdoor mosquitoes could defy control. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.69

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