This month, the Duke team enjoyed hosting a team of collaborators from Johns Hopkins University to talk about the current knowledge regarding malaria sporozoites and how this stage of the parasite’s development is implicated in malaria transmission dynamics.
The malaria parasite requires both the mosquito vector and mammalian host to complete its full life cycle. Research frequently focuses on [….] to disrupt transmission. Understanding how sporozoites develop from oocysts in the mosquito stomach and what determines which sporozoites will transfer to the vector’s salivary glands may provide further avenues for disrupting malaria infection pathways.
To learn more about sporozoites and the malaria parasite’s life cycle [ insert link… wikipedia? ]
