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The vector as protector

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Malaria infections are not always lethal. One reason for this may be that transmission from mosquitoes creates malaria parasites that trigger a more protective mammalian immune response. See Letter p.228

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Figure 1: Evolutionary selection of antigenic profiles.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion3 were published online on 29 May 2013.

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  1. Departments of Biology and Entomology, Andrew F. Read and Nicole Mideo are at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.,

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Read, A., Mideo, N. The vector as protector. Nature 498, 177–178 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12252

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