Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Friday, May 10, 2013

Using bacteria to stop malaria

A study in the current issue of Science shows that the transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted by using a strain of the bacteria Wolbachia in the insects. In a sense, Wolbachia would act as a vaccine of sorts for mosquitoes that would protect them from malaria parasites. Treating mosquitoes would prevent them from transmitting malaria to humans, a disease that in 2010 affected 219 million people and caused an estimated 660,000 deaths.

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RAWDA RUTH SARRAIL said...

|Wolbachia Vaccine "Shots" for Non- infected Malaria Mosquitoes ***

May 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM

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