title: A mosquito mediator of parasite-induced immune priming.
abstract: Immune memory is a central feature of the mammalian adaptive immune system. The more primitive innate immune system of insects has also been shown to comprise memory, or immune priming. A recent study has shed new light on how Plasmodium primes the mosquito immune system for greater resistance to a subsequent infection with the same pathogen.
authors.affiliation: W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Maria L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Simões
authors.affiliation: W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: gdimopo1@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dimopoulos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008954:Models, Biological; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000276:immunology*
keywords: Plasmodium; immune priming; memory; mosquito