Isolation and identification of culturable bacteria from wild Anopheles culicifacies, a first step in a paratransgenesis approach

Abstract

The study of vector mosquito microbiota has recently gathered increased interest because of the potential influence on vector competence. By adding data from a hitherto uncharacterized malaria mosquito, a better picture of gut flora in vector mosquitoes was obtained. Furthermore, some species of the predominant genus Pseudomonas will be evaluated for the selection of a paratransgenesis candidate.