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Mosquito ingestion of antibodies against mosquito midgut microbiota improves conversion of ookinetes to oocysts for Plasmodium falciparum, but not P. yoelii

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Bruce H. Noden¹, Jefferson A. Vaughan², Charles B. Pumpuni³, John C. Beier⁴•Institutions (4)

Polytechnic of Namibia¹, University of North Dakota², Northern Virginia Community College³, University of Miami⁴

01 Dec 2011-Parasitology International

TL;DR: Results suggest that gram-negative bacteria, which normally impair P. falciparum development between the ookinete and oocyst stage, were altered by specific anti-bacterial antibodies produced by immunizing rabbits with non-antibiotic-treated midgut lysates.

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