ReviewTrends in parasitology2024
À la carte: how mosquitoes choose their blood meals.
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sickle Trait Hemoglobin Does Not Influence Anopheles Biting Rates.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026Article
- Molecular xenomonitoring for identifying Plasmodium parasites and blood meal sources of mosquitoes in malaria endemic villages adjacent to the southern Rift Valley Lakes, South Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Asymptomatic school-age children carry the majority of transmissible Plasmodium falciparum infections.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Sickle-trait hemoglobin does not influencemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Microbial Volatiles from Human Skin and Floral Nectar: Insufficiently Understood Adult Feeding Cues To Improve Odor-Based Traps for Aedes Vector Control.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Review
- Mosquito Feeding Preference, Infectivity Rates, and Knockdown Resistance Within the Wild Population ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Once bitten, twice shy: A modeling framework for incorporating heterogeneous mosquito biting into transmission models.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mosquitoes are important vectors for human diseases, transmitting pathogens that cause a range of parasitic and viral infections. Mosquito blood-feeding is heterogeneous, meaning that some human hosts are at higher risk of receiving bites than others, and this heterogeneity is multifactorial. Mosquitoes integrate specific cues to locate their hosts, and mosquito attraction differs considerably between individual human hosts. Heterogeneous mosquito biting results from variations in both host attractiveness and availability and can impact transmission of vector-borne diseases. However, the extent and drivers of this heterogeneity and its importance for pathogen transmission remain incompletely understood. Here, we review methods and recent data describing human characteristics that affect host-seeking behavior and host preferences of mosquito disease vectors, and the implications for vector-borne disease transmission.
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