January 2019

A pilot study on isolation of Asaia and detecting its co-presence with Plasmodium falciparum in two major malaria vectors in Senegal

The declining of malaria creates the opportunity to accelerate its elimination. However, the elimination program is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance among Anopheles (An.) mosquitoes, stressing the urgent need for new vector control strategies. Recent evidence of stable infection of anopheles’ symbionts that could affect the development of Plasmodium parasites within mosquitoes, has paved the way...

Author(s): Hubert Bassene,#, El Hadji Amadou Niang,#, Florence Fenollar, Souleymane Doucoure, Badara Samb, Ousmane Faye, Didier Raoult, Cheikh Sokhna, and Oleg Mediannikov