Adaptation of Plasmodium falciparum to its transmission environment

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Rono, Martin K., Nyonda, Mary A., Simam, Joan J., Ngoi, Joyce M., Mok, Sachel, Kortok, Moses M., Abdullah, Abdullah S., Elfaki, Mohammed M., Waitumbi, John N., El-Hassan, Ibrahim M., Marsh, Kevin, Bozdech, Zbynek, Mackinnon, Margaret J.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Biological Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Science::Biological sciences; Plasmodium Falciparum; Transmission
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140923

Success in eliminating malaria will depend on whether parasite evolution outpaces control efforts. Here, we show that Plasmodium falciparum parasites (the deadliest of the species causing human malaria) found in low-transmission-intensity areas have evolved to invest more in transmission to new host...