Microbial communities on skin affect humans' attractiveness to mosquitoes

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria transmission and prevention, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the online journal PLoS ONE.

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