title: Infection and transmission of Plasmodium gallinaceum (Eucoccida: Plasmodiidae) in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): effect of preinfection sugar meals and postinfection blood meals.
abstract: Frequency of sugar feeding and blood feeding can have an impact on the infection by and transmission of malaria parasites. Data presented here indicate that frequent blood feeding has a deleterious effect on infection by malaria parasites in Aedes aegypti. In addition, mosquitoes that do not blood feed, but instead feed on sugar alone after an infected blood meal, have a higher rate of parasite transmission than mosquitoes fed additional blood meals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts Amherst 01003, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Edman
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000469:parasitology*; D000818:Animals; D002241:Carbohydrates; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D010964:Plasmodium gallinaceum
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates