Parasite development: The missing link to Plasmodium gametocytogenesis

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 3 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.151 Author: Ursula Hofer Only gametocytes, the sexual forms of Plasmodium spp. parasites, can be transmitted to mosquitoes. The factors that control sexual development are incompletely understood. Marti and colleagues now identify lysophosphatidylcholine as a component in human serum that inhibits sexual development of Plasmodium falciparum. The
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