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ArticleMalaria journal2016

Enhanced transmission of malaria parasites to mosquitoes in a murine model of type 2 diabetes.

Nazzy Pakpour, Kong Wai Cheung, Shirley Luckhart

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Article in Malaria journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Obesity and Diabetes as Risk Factors for Severe Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: Results From a Swedish Nationwide Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017
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3 authors.

Nazzy PakpourDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. nazzy.pakpour@csueastbay.edu.
Kong Wai CheungDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Shirley LuckhartDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMore than half of the world's population is at risk of malaria and simultaneously, many malaria-endemic regions are facing dramatic increases in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes. Studies in murine malaria models have examined the impact of malaria infection on type 2 diabetes pathology, it remains unclear how this chronic metabolic disorder impacts the transmission of malaria. In this report, the ability type 2 diabetic rodents infected with malaria to transmit parasites to Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes is quantified.

methodsThe infection prevalence and intensity of An. stephensi mosquitoes that fed upon control or type 2 diabetic C57BL/6 db/db mice infected with either lethal Plasmodium berghei NK65 or non-lethal Plasmodium yoelii 17XNL murine malaria strains were determined. Daily parasitaemias were also recorded.

resultsA higher percentage of mosquitoes (87.5 vs 61.5 % for P. yoelii and 76.9 vs 50 % for P. berghei) became infected following blood feeding on Plasmodium-infected type 2 diabetic mice compared to mosquitoes that fed on infected control animals, despite no significant differences in circulating gametocyte levels.

conclusionsThese results suggest that type 2 diabetic mice infected with malaria are more efficient at infecting mosquitoes, raising the question of whether a similar synergy exists in humans.

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2AnimalsAnophelesDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalFemaleInsect VectorsMalariaMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPlasmodium bergheiPlasmodium yoeliiAnophelesMalariaMosquitoPlasmodium bergheiPlasmodium yoeliiType 2 diabetes

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PMID27102766
PMCPMC4839141

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