Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Trends Parasitol. 2022 Feb;38(2):124-135. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.009. Epub 2021 Sep 18.
Interactions between the Anopheles mosquito vector and Plasmodium parasites shape how malaria is transmitted in endemic regions. The long association of these two organisms has led to evolutionary processes that minimize fitness costs of infection and benefit both players through shared nutrient resources, parasite immune suppression, and mosquito tolerance to infection. In this review we explore recent data describing how Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, associates with one of its most important natural mosquito hosts, Anopheles gambiae, and we discuss the implications of these findings for parasite transmission and vector control strategies currently in development.
疟蚊媒介与疟原虫寄生虫之间的相互作用决定了疟疾在流行地区的传播方式。这两种生物的长期共生关系导致了进化过程,使感染的适应成本最小化,并通过共享营养资源、寄生虫免疫抑制和蚊子对感染的耐受使两者都受益。在这篇综述中,我们探讨了最近的数据,描述了最致命的疟原虫寄生虫疟原虫如何与它最重要的天然蚊子宿主之一冈比亚按蚊相关联,我们还讨论了这些发现对寄生虫传播和目前正在开发的媒介控制策略的意义。