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Asexual blood stages of malaria modulate gametocyte infectivity to the mosquito vector – possible implications for control strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. E. Sinden
R. E. Sinden
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Department of Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB, UK
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Abstract

In the rodent malarial parasite Plasmodium berghei sexual parasites are produced in a single major wave with maximal numbers between day 7 and day 16. Irrespective of their time of appearance during infection these sexual parasites are equally fertile in vitro. In contrast, in vivo infectivity to the mosquito is maximal at day 3–5 when gametocyte numbers are only 9% of the peak levels seen between days 7 and 16. Up to 96% of natural potential infectivity of gametocytes for the mosquito is therefore suppressed. The suppression is humoral, reversible and correlates with the appearance of an effective host response to the initial rapid increase in asexual parasitaemia. These data are consistent with published evidence which indicates that a reduction in parasitaemia may cause an increase in infectivity of gametocytes to the mosquito vector. Therefore the impact of strategies aiming to control asexual parasites is re-examined. Inefficient strategies might be predicted to increase and not suppress malaria transmission.

Keywords

malariagametocyteinfectivityasexualcontrol
Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 103 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 191 - 196
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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