16 July 2015
In malaria-endemic regions, humans are often infected repeatedly with the Plasmodium parasite. Little is known about possible co-infection and its consequences in the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the disease. A new study reports that not only can individual mosquitoes accumulate infections from multiple blood feeds, but also that an existing malaria infection makes mosquitoes more susceptible to a second infection, and that infections reach higher densities when another strain is already present.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/4GjQZb2Ghbg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/4GjQZb2Ghbg/150716160319.htm
