[Are sugars always necessary for the infection of mosquitoes with malarial plasmodia?].

The possibility of the completion of the sporogony cycle of Plasmodium gallinaceum in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which were not given preliminary carbohydrate feeding, is considered. The significance of the obtained data for tracing the connection between the type of feeding of arthropods and their ability to be specific vectors of agents of transmissible infections is discussed.