Over the past 20 years, our understanding of the physiological and molecular interactions between parasites, such as Plasmodium spp. and dengue virus, and their mosquito vectors 1,2,3 has been ...

A recent review published in PLOS Pathogens discussed the current research on the role of molecular mechanisms in mediating immune priming in insects and regulating vector-borne disease transmission.

It is hard to overstate the medical importance and burden of vector-transmitted infectious diseases. Whether the metric used is mortality (malaria, for example, kills 1 million to 2 million people ...