PARASITOLOGY: Mosquitoes Complement Malaria

Stopping Malaria in Mosquitoes

The development of quantum communication networks will require a source of single photons that can be generated on demand. McKeever et al. (p. 1992) report on a scheme in which a single cesium atom is trapped in an optical cavity. Coupling between the excited atom and the optical mode of the cavity allows single photons to be generated deterministically while strongly suppressing two-photon eve...

Mosquitoes and Malaria

This is an admirable little book which should be in the hands of every medical man in India. It gives in small space a very complete account of our knowledge of the subject of the relations of mosquitoes to malaria, at the present day, and also a sketch of the natural history of some mosquitoes. It begins by giving a short account of the malaria parasite, from its discovery by Laveran. Chapter ...

Mosquitoes and Malaria

of the propagation of malarial fevers by the parasite discovered by Laveran was limited b}T | the fact that no one had been able to discover i the organism in external nature ; and the difti; culties surrounding the subject were so great | that this discovery seemed to be almost hopeless, j In 1894, however, Dr. Patrick Manson stated in a definite way a theory that the parasites j are capable o...

Malaria and Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes Reset Malaria Parasites

Serial blood passage of Plasmodium universally increases parasite virulence, which can be reversed by mosquito transmission. How mosquitoes reset Plasmodium virulence has been unknown. We have shown that mosquito transmission modifies expression of Plasmodium subtelomeric multigene families, including those that code for variant surface antigens (VSA), and transforms the systemic immune respons...