Melanotic Pathology and Vertical Transmission of the Gut Commensal Elizabethkingia meningoseptica in the Major Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Akhouayri, Idir G ^a,b   Habtewold, Tibebu ^a   Christophides, Georges K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRKON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; EMBRYO; ENDOSYMBIONT; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; IMAGO; INOCULATION; MELANOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOLYMPH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MELANINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SYMBIOSIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84884835219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077619     Document Type: Article

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