Multiple blood meals speed up malaria parasite development
Our findings suggest that parasites can be transmitted by younger mosquitoes, with potential consequences for increased malaria transmission and challenges to… Read more »
W. Robert Shaw is a Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Flaminia Catteruccia at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a vector biologist, with special interests in host-pathogen interactions between Anopheles mosquitoes and Plasmodium parasites, mosquito reproductive physiology and new avenues for control of malaria transmission.
Lauren M. Childs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on developing and analyzing mathematical and computational models to better understand the pathogenesis and spread of tropical infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue.
Inga E. Holmdahl is a PhD candidate in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist working primarily on using mathematical modeling to analyze mosquito control strategies for malaria.
Lauren M. Childs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on developing and analyzing mathematical and computational models to better understand the pathogenesis and spread of tropical infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue.
Inga E. Holmdahl is a PhD candidate in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist working primarily on using mathematical modeling to analyze mosquito control strategies for malaria.
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- Multiple blood meals speed up malaria parasite development - 22nd January 2021