Nature Communications (Feb 2021)
Genotyping cognate Plasmodium falciparum in humans and mosquitoes to estimate onward transmission of asymptomatic infections
Abstract
Asymptomatic malaria infections contribute to transmission. Here, Sumner et al. infer participant-to-mosquito transmission by sampling naturally-fed mosquitoes from households in Western Kenya and find that asymptomatic infections more than double the odds of transmission to a mosquito compared to symptomatic infections.