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The find, reported today at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Seattle, is the most direct evidence yet that ties the invasive insect to increasing malaria cases, says Martin Donnelly, an evolutionary geneticist at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who was not involved in the study.
Tadesse and his colleagues tested household members of 80 malaria patients and compared them with household members of 210 people who did not have the disease. They found that household members of malaria patients were 5.6 times more likely to be infected than the control family members. Households with malaria cases also had more mosquito breeding habitats within 100 meters of their homes than control households, the team reports today at the ASTMH meeting.
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