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Children With Malaria Smell More Attractive to Mosquitoes
The parasite changes people’s scent, primarily due to an increase in aldehydes.
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Plasmodium-associated changes in human odor attract mosquitoes
Malaria parasites (Plasmodium) can change the attractiveness of their vertebrate hosts to Anopheles vectors, leading to a greater number of vector-host cont …
Malaria infection increases attractiveness of humans to mosquitoes
Do malaria parasites enhance the attractiveness of humans to the parasite's vector? As such manipulation would have important implications for the epidemiology of the dis …
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