Jefferson A. Vaughan

TL;DR: Relationships between human malaria infectiousness and vector infectivity are dependent upon the high efficiency of the developmental transition from the ookinete to the subsequent oocyst and sporozoite stages.

TL;DR: It is suggested that certain key parameters determine whether dual virus/mf host infections will enhance arboviral infectivity to mosquitoes, including species differences in the capacity of mf to penetrate the mosquito midgut, the amount of virus passing into the hemocoel during mf penetration, and the innate susceptibility of mosquitoes to hemocoelsomically introduced virus.

TL;DR: The results show that fleas have calreticulin and, possibly, several isoforms, and it appears that the salivary glands of the cat and oriental rat flea differ in detectable levels of cal reticulin.

TL;DR: The contrasting effects of microfilarial enhancement of viral infectivity and MF-induced mortality in mosquitoes differed among mosquito species and were determined by the nature and consequences of MF penetration through the mosquito midgut, but not to differences in mosquito susceptibilities to parenterally introduced virus.

TL;DR: If a reliable parasite isolate or clone is used, there is no need to measure other characteristics of in vitro gametocyte populations because these will not significantly improve one's ability to predict oocyst infection rates.