Persistent Wolbachia and cultivable bacteria infection in the reproductive and somatic tissues of the mosquito vector Aedes albopictus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Zouache, Karima ^a,b   Voronin, Denis ^a,b   Tran Van, Van ^a,b   Mousson, Laurence ^c   Failloux, Anna Bella ^c   Mavingui, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b University of Lyon   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COMAMONAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELFTIA; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; MALE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; SALIVARY GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WOLBACHIA; AEDES; ANIMAL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ACINETOBACTER; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; COMAMONAS; DELFTIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; WOLBACHIA;

PRIMER DNA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 68149132427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006388     Document Type: Article

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