malaria

Genetic study investigates how mosquitoes transmit malaria

By determining the genetic sequence of 16 types of mosquitoes (Anopheles genus), an international research team, including researchers from SFU, has contributed knowledge on how these mosquitoes adapt to humans as the primary host of malaria. The international research team consisted of over 100 biologists, immunologists, infectious disease specialists, computational mathematicians, and geneticists, and had its findings published in Science Express. While the presence of malaria in North America and Europe is minimal, it is endemic in several areas around the equator and has high fatality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. However, only a few dozen of the…

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