Fighting malaria with engineered symbiotic bacteria from vector mosquitoes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12734-12739

  Wang, Sibao ^a   Ghosh, Anil K ^a   Bongio, Nicholas ^b   Stebbings, Kevin A ^b,c   Lampe, David J ^b   Jacobs Lorena, Marcelo ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Malaria control; Paratransgenesis; Transmission blocking

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; CHITINASE PROPEPTIDE; DEFENSIN; HEMOLYSIN; IMMUNOTOXIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PLASMINOGEN; PLASMODIUM ENOLASE PLASMINOGEN INTERACTION PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SHIVA1; SCORPINE; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; SM1 PEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SYMBIOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIMALARIALS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PANTOEA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 84864500264     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204158109     Document Type: Article

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