Genetically Modifying the Insect Gut Microbiota to Control Chagas Disease Vectors through Systemic RNAi

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Taracena, Mabel L ^a,b   Oliveira, Pedro L ^a,c   Almendares, Olivia ^d   Umaña, Claudia ^b   Lowenberger, Carl ^e   Dotson, Ellen M ^d   Paiva Silva, Gabriela O ^a,c   Pennington, Pamela M ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Em Entomologia Molecular INCT EM   (Brazil)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; HEMOPROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RHODNIUS HEME BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HEME; HEME-BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; INTESTINE FLORA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTOR; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; RHODNIUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; RHODNIUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84924047716     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003358     Document Type: Article

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