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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Murdock CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3909897 | biostudies-other | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20140203
Very recently, the Asian malaria vector (Anopheles stephensi) was stably transinfected with the wAlbB strain of Wolbachia, inducing refractoriness to the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. However, conditions in the field can differ substantially from those in the laboratory. We use the rodent malaria P. yoelii, and somatically transinfected An. stephensi as a model system to investigate whether the transmission blocking potential of wAlbB is likely to be robust across different therm ...[more]