Enhanced Survival of Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes during Starvation

Yang O. Zhao; Sebastian Kurscheid; Yue Zhang; Lei Liu; Lili Zhang; Kelsey Loeliger; Erol Fikrig

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040556

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Enhanced Survival of Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes during Starvation

Yang O. Zhao ,

* E-mail: yang.zhao@yale.edu (YOZ); erol.fikrig@yale.edu (EF)

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
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Sebastian Kurscheid,

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Yue Zhang,

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
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Lei Liu,

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Lili Zhang,

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Kelsey Loeliger,

Current address: MD/PhD Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Erol Fikrig

* E-mail: yang.zhao@yale.edu (YOZ); erol.fikrig@yale.edu (EF)

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
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Enhanced Survival of Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes during Starvation

Yang O. Zhao,
Sebastian Kurscheid,
Yue Zhang,
Lei Liu,
Lili Zhang,
Kelsey Loeliger,
Erol Fikrig

Published: July 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040556

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