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ReviewTrends in parasitology2008

Ecological immunology of mosquito-malaria interactions.

Frédéric Tripet, Fred Aboagye-Antwi, Hilary Hurd

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Review in Trends in parasitology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Gene drive and resilience through renewal with next generationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  13. Gene editing technologies and applications for insects.Current opinion in insect science · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Frédéric TripetCentre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Huxley Building, Keele University, Newcastle, Staffordshire, UK ST5 5BG. f.tripet@bio.keele.ac.uk
Fred Aboagye-Antwi
Hilary Hurd

Funding

Wellcome Trust 069162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than a century after the discovery of the complex life cycle of its causative agent, malaria remains a major health problem. Understanding mosquito-malaria interactions could lead to breakthroughs in malaria control. Novel strategies, such as the design of transgenic mosquitoes refractory to Plasmodium, or design of human vaccines emulating mosquito resistance to the parasite, require extensive knowledge of processes involved in immune responses and of microevolutionary mechanisms that create and maintain variation in immune responses in wild vector populations. The recent realization of how intimately and specifically mosquitoes and Plasmodium co-evolve in Nature is driving vector molecular biologists and evolutionary ecologists to move closer to the natural setting under the common umbrella of 'Ecological immunology'.

Indexed as

EcosystemAnimalsAnophelesHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansInsect VectorsMalariaPlasmodium

Identifiers

PMID18424235
PMCPMC2474669

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