Malarial Plasmodium infect humans with a specific smell, which makes the victim attractive to mosquitoes.. Scientists from the UK came to this conclusion. Research results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists from the UK presented their hypotheses and observations on the influence of malarial plasmodia on the attractiveness of humans to mosquitoes.

Experts have conducted a number of studies that have emphasized the relationship between these concepts.. By the way, the specified genus of parasitic unicellular organisms, some species of which cause malaria.

About two hundred species are known, of which at least five species parasitize humans.. Scientists see a solution to the problem of plasmodia parasitism in changing their "

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