Plasmodium parasites are transmitted through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Mosquitoes regularly experience interruptions while feeding that may lead to repeated biting, either on the same host or on multiple hosts during the same gonotrophic cycle. In studies where mosquito blood meals were genetically linked to the human blood source, up to 22% of blood meals contained blood from multiple human origins [1, 2], probably acquired during the same night.
