Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Blood meal-induced inhibition of vector-borne disease by transgenic microbiota

  • Jackie L. Shane,
  • Christina L. Grogan,
  • Caroline Cwalina,
  • David J. Lampe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06580-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Vector alteration strategies are emerging as attractive tools for malaria transmission control. Here, Shane et al. engineer a bacterial strain, isolated from mosquitoes, to produce an antiplasmodial protein in the presence of blood meal, causing the mosquitoes to become refractory to Plasmodium infection.