Genotyping cognate Plasmodium falciparum in humans and mosquitoes to estimate onward transmission of asymptomatic infections

Asymptomatic malaria infections contribute to transmission. Here, Sumner et al. infer participant-to-mosquito transmission by sampling naturally-fed mosquitoes from households in Western Kenya and find that asymptomatic infections more than double the odds of transmission to a mosquito compared to s...

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Main Authors: Kelsey M. Sumner, Elizabeth Freedman, Lucy Abel, Andrew Obala, Brian W. Pence, Amy Wesolowski, Steven R. Meshnick, Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara, Steve M. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21269-2