Wolbachia and anopheles mosquitoes

Jason L. Rasgon

doi:10.1201/9781420064117

Wolbachia and anopheles mosquitoes

Jason L. Rasgon

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Human malaria, caused exclusively by Plasmodium parasites, infects up to 500 million people and results in almost 3 million deaths per year (Hay et al., 2004). The malaria parasites are dependent on Anopheles mosquitoes for transmission between human hosts (Collins and Paskewitz, 1995). Control of the disease is currently limited to antiparasitic drugs and mosquito control (Beaty, 2000) and is hampered by the evolution of drug and insecticide resistance (Talisuna et al., 2004; Hemingway and Ranson, 2000). Thus, there has been a recent concerted effort to develop genetically modified Anopheles mosquitoes that are unable to transmit Plasmodium (Ito et al., 2002; Marrelli et al., 2007).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Insect Symbiosis
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	321-328
Number of pages	8
Volume	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781420064117
ISBN (Print)	9781420064100
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420064117
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

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General Immunology and Microbiology

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