Summary: INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, May 2007, p. 2523­2530 Vol. 75, No. 5
0019-9567/07/$08.00 0 doi:10.1128/IAI.01928-06
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Uninfected Mosquito Bites Confer Protection against Infection with
Malaria Parasites
Michael J. Donovan,1
Andrew S. Messmore,2
Deborah A. Scrafford,1
David L. Sacks,2
Shaden Kamhawi,2
and Mary Ann McDowell1
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Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
Indiana 46556,1
and Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 208922
Received 6 December 2006/Returned for modification 14 January 2007/Accepted 17 February 2007
Despite decades of research and multiple initiatives, malaria continues to be one of the world's most
debilitating infectious diseases. New insights for malaria control and vaccine development will be essential to
thwart the staggering worldwide impact of this disease (A. Bjorkman and A. Bhattarai, Acta Trop. 94:163­169,

Source: Arnold, Jonathan - Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center & Department of Genetics, University of Georgia

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