ReviewTrends in parasitology2013
Could culicine mosquitoes transmit human malaria?
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Undernutrition enhances host attractiveness to mosquitoes and transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.Cell research · 2026Article
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- Genetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationships of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Central Nepal.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Molecular detection of avian parasites in Australian mosquitoes (Culicidae).Journal of medical entomology · 2025Article
- Phylogenomics redefines the evolutionary history of mosquitoes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Identification and biophysical characterization of Plasmodium peptide binding by common African HLAs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Anopheles jamesii Supports Plasmodium vivax Sporogony under Laboratory Conditions.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- New insight into avian malaria vectors in New Zealand.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- The African mosquito-borne diseasosome: geographical patterns, range expansion and future disease emergence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Plasmodium-a brief introduction to the parasites causing human malaria and their basic biology.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2021Review
- Louse flies of Eleonora's falcons that also feed on their prey are evolutionary dead-end hosts for blood parasites.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
- Diet-Induced Nutritional Stress and Pathogen Interference in Wolbachia-Infected Aedes aegypti.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- An ultrasensitive NanoLuc-based luminescence system for monitoring Plasmodium berghei throughout its life cycle.Malaria journal · 2016Article
- Dynamics of prevalence and diversity of avian malaria infections in wild Culex pipiens mosquitoes: the effects of Wolbachia, filarial nematodes and insecticide resistance.Parasites & vectors · 2014Article
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Abstract
Human malaria is known to be transmitted strictly by anopheline mosquitoes. Culicine mosquitoes such as Aedes spp. and Culex spp. are important vectors of other human pathogens including viruses and filarial worms, but have never been observed to transmit mammalian malarias. Culicines do transmit avian malarias and, interestingly, allow partial development of mammalian-infectious Plasmodium parasites, implying that physiological barriers in the mosquitoes prevent parasite transmission. Although the mechanism(s) are not known, the mosquito immune system is probably involved in eliminating Plasmodium. However, Plasmodium has shown substantial capacity to adapt to new vectors, and current ecological changes caused by humans could promote adaptation of human-infectious Plasmodium parasites to culicines. Such an event could have widespread epidemiological implications and therefore merits attention.
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