| Literature DB >> 19608457 |
Anil Kumar Ghosh1, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena.
Abstract
About one to two million people die of malaria every year. Anopheline mosquitoes are the obligatory vectors of Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria. For transmission to occur, the parasite has to undergo a complex developmental programme in the mosquito, culminating with sporozoite invasion of the salivary glands. Strong circumstantial evidence suggests that sporozoite invasion requires specific interactions and recognition between sporozoite and salivary gland proteins. Here we review recent progress towards the elucidation of invasion mechanisms.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19608457 PMCID: PMC2759692 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.06.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Microbiol ISSN: 1369-5274 Impact factor: 7.934