On a mission to block transmission

Amanda Ross; Nicolas Mb Brancucci

doi:10.7554/eLife.35246

On a mission to block transmission

Elife. 2018 Feb 27:7:e35246. doi: 10.7554/eLife.35246.

Authors

Amanda Ross^{1

2}, Nicolas Mb Brancucci^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Department of Molecular Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Abstract

The controlled infection of volunteers with Plasmodium falciparum parasites could provide a platform to evaluate new drugs and vaccines aimed at blocking malaria transmission.

Keywords: P. falciparum; Plasmodium falciparum; gametocytes; infectious disease; malaria; microbiology; transmission.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Antimalarials*
Humans
Malaria*
Malaria, Falciparum*
Plasmodium falciparum

Substances

Antimalarials