Many of the factors underlying malaria pathogenesis are not well understood, including protection from the development of febrile symptoms. Here, Van Den Ham et al. show that susceptibility to febrile malaria is associated with the composition of the gut microbiome prior to the malaria season in 10-year-old Malian children, but not in younger children.
- Kristin M. Van Den Ham
- Layne K. Bower
- Nathan W. Schmidt
