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Scientists Discover Aggressive Outdoor Malaria Mosquito

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Scientists Discover Aggressive Outdoor Malaria Mosquito
Jessica Berman | Washington February 04, 2011

Scientists are expressing concern that a newly-discovered type of mosquito could mean larger and less easily controlled populations of insects carrying the deadliest form of malaria.

The previously unclassified mosquito is a member of the anopheles gambiae family, the same mosquito group that carries the Plasmodium falciparum parasite and infects humans with the malaria pathogen when it feeds on their blood...
 
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http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/...ifican-nuevo-mosquito-trasmisor-del-paludismo
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Identified new mosquito carries the malaria
Digital Writing Writer
Saturday, February 5, 2011 23:00

Paris, France. - French specialists from the Pasteur Institute and the National Research Center have discovered a new group of mosquitoes capable of transmitting malaria sharply.

It is a variety of the genus Anopheles, the main vector of the disease, which was christened Goundry gambiae, and according to local sources, to arrive at that finding, the researchers conducted a sampling in an area of more than 400 miles through Burkina Faso.

During this exploration of the African country, which lasted more than four years, French scientists collected larvae and adult insects present in domestic and peridomestic areas, inside and outside homes.

As a result, the researchers found the new variety gambiae Goundry, never described before, and also represented over 50 percent of the samples
 
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