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Malaria is a febrile and potentially fatal infection. It is typically transmitted to humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes and less frequently can be contracted through blood transfusions, sharing contaminated needles and syringes, mother‐to‐child transmission, or after solid organ transplantation. Posttransplant malaria has rarely been reported in the literature, even in endemic areas....
Malaria‐causing parasites are transmitted from humans to mosquitoes when developmentally arrested gametocytes are taken up by a female Anopheles during a blood meal. The changes in environment from human to mosquito activate gametogenesis, including a drop in temperature, a rise in pH, and a mosquito‐derived molecule, xanthurenic acid. Signaling receptors have not been identified in malaria parasites...