Lactobacillus infection related to midgut protein synthesis in the dengue vector Aedes albopictus: Platform of non-symbiont bacteria for the control of Aedes vectors

• Main Authors: Hamady, Dieng, Parimal, Talukder, Tomomitsu, Satho, Yukihiko, Nakashima, Nobuhiro, Kashige, Ikenna N., Nwachukwu, Adzitey, Frederick, Rahman G. M., Saifur, Che Salmah, Md Rawi, Abu Hassan, Ahmad, Fumio, Miake
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: JPVB 2010
• Subjects: QR Microbiology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9599/1/Lactobacillus%20infection%20related%20to%20midgut%20protein%20synthesis%20in%20the%20dengue%20vector%20Aedes%20albopictus%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9599/; http://www.academicjournals.org/JPVB

There have been a number of recent studies regarding the use of engineered insect symbiont bacteria for control of insect-borne diseases. However, searches for cultivable bacteria residing in the mosquito midgut have met with little success. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects...