Saturday, 1 June 2019

PRO> Malaria: transgenic fungus kills mosquitoes

Malaria -- Worldwide/Unknown
Malaria control efforts require implementation of new technologies that manage insecticide resistance. _Metarhizium pingshaense_ provides an effective, mosquito-specific delivery system for potent insect-selective toxins. A semifield trial in a MosquitoSphere (a contained, near-natural environment) in Soumousso, a region of Burkina Faso where malaria is endemic, confirmed that the expression of an insect-specific toxin (Hybrid) increased fungal lethality and the likelihood that

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6498600&promed&0

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