Sentences with phrase «transmit human malaria»

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The researchers found that the virus was almost certainly inadvertently transmitted to the gibbons from rodents by medical researchers working on human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

In 1967, Ruth found that irradiating malaria - infected mosquitoes with X-rays weakened sporozoites, the form of the malaria parasite that is transmitted to humans during mosquito bites.

The movement of millions of people, monitored through their cellphones, has shed new light on how malaria is transmitted via human hosts in Kenya.

How it works: To measure the way malaria is transmitted, the computers simulate large human populations, varying biological and social parameters that influence the distribution of the disease.

Surprisingly, the major blood stage form of the parasite that causes the terrible cycles of intense fevers associated with malaria in humans can not be transmitted to mosquitos.

Elegant, dainty, and deadly, it is the most common of all blood - sucking arthropods and the most important insect carrier of human disease, transmitting not only malaria but also yellow fever, dengue, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and the tiny worms that cause elephantiasis.

Deleting a single gene from mosquitoes can make them highly resistant to the malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Insmalaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research InsMalaria Research Institute.

The females of as many as 85 species of Anopheles mosquito suck human blood in order to nurture their eggs, often transmitting the protozoan malaria parasite, Plasmodium, in the process.

These relations to the common mosquito live in the tropics and subtropics and transmit diseases dangerous to humans and animals from avian malaria to the West Nile virus.

But only seven species are known to transmit the malaria parasite to humans, including members of the An.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to humans by a mosquito bite, leading to 219 million documented cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2012.

Gene drive technology might limit the ability of Anopheles gambiae mosquito to transmit malaria to humans.

Malaria is caused by a parasite and transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.

The researchers also collected specimens of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species responsible for transmitting malaria to humans in Africa.